Donna Moylan
People Sitting Down
2002
Paper, Watercolor and Acrylic on Canvas
72 x 84 inches
http://donnamoylan.com
Donna Moylan lives and works in New York and Kinderhook, New York
“If I did paint, what could be the subject matter? My decision was to make paintings that were different from one another. Authorship was immaterial; what was important was the unconscious recognition that could occur in looking at a work of art. In other words, I wanted to reaffirm the existence of that particular experience. I was stating that art is a phenomenon, that we are primed for it, and that it can be prompted. If the paintings look different from one another—one abstract, another figurative, some with words, other with landscapes, some funny, some grave and so on, to my mind I was dissolving the problem of authorship and formalism. The subject matter was art itself.”
– Donna Moylan, interview with Paul Laster, White Hot Magazine, 2016