Anne Sloboda
Anne Sloboda
Artist's Statement : Anne Sloboda aka The inside of my head I am a Boomer. Born and raised partly in the 50's and coming of age in the 60's and 70's. That means I was influenced by everything that was in the air at that time. Looney Tune cartoons and Bugs Bunny Barber of Seville, Dr. Seuss, Walt Disney Fantasia, pre-psychedelic Louis Wain cat paintings in the Time Life Book of the Mind and a grade 6 trip to the AGO to see the Picasso exhibition. I came home with 2 bigVan Gogh posters and a small booklet of rose and blue period acrobats. So much for Picasso. By high school, Peter Max and Milton Glaser were everywhere, and so was Merimekko fabric just waiting to be made into curtains or mini skirts. At Sheridan College, I discovered the basics of colour field painting and abstract geometrics. Starting out in the hot glass studio, I ended up in the textile studio, working with screen prints of repeat patterns in bold colour schemes. . In particular, the rotational symmetry of snowflakes, kaleidoscopes and mandalas fascinate me. Without being particularly knowledgeable about the concept of sacred geometry, I incorporate many mathematical structures such as Fibonacci sequences and fractals, and I am working toward images that reduce the natural complexity of the world to as simple and basic forms as I can.