"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any
other way -- things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe
statement
I am fascinated by the compelling force of color, its effect on our emotions and its role in our responses to life, actively yet silently spoken. I marvel in the power of words and the subtleties, nuances, truths and lies they carry so heavily on their backs. This drives me to be absorbed with wonder about the people I meet and see, their actions, their words and the "why" related to them. I then prefer to replace those words with what I think are their representative colors.
My growth as an artist expands fundamentally in the belief that we speak more honestly and directly when our carefully chosen words become more casually and intimately translated when replaced with our color selections. I curiously contemplate which color someone may pull out of that time honored box of sixty four when they speak.
I explore these concepts with mixed-media figurative and nonobjective work using a variety of materials as well as pursuing a conversation relating to how it affects each of us individually and in our commonality. These dynamics compel me to continue this perpetual exploration of color which fosters my journey as an artist.
about donna bogosto kearns
Donna lives in Pittsburgh, PA and her concentration has been examining the intuitive aspects of color for over 25 years. She expresses her style by focusing on how each of us is affected by color's emotional characteristics.
She is a multidiscipline artist who creates work based in visually translating words, emotions, and responses into the fundamental language of color through figurative and nonobjective mixed-media art and personal portrait masks. She is also a color consultant and lectures on the intuitive characteristics of color.
Throughout Kearns' career she has worked in a variety of media while consistently being engaged in the process of color selection based on its emotional energy, specifically the underlying human response to these properties and characteristics.
Kearns began her work as a painter but was quickly drawn to a more tactile medium beginning her longtime career with glass, a material dictated by color. She has designed, fabricated and has taught stained and mosaic glass, various applications of decorative and architectural glass, and has over one hundred fifty residential, commercial, and public installations throughout the US, UK, and Australia.
After becoming unable to continue fabricating with stained glass, she continued her study of the human response to color. Texture and dimension also continue to be key elements in her work. This has guided her to explore additional disciplines, most recently fiber.
She pursues this focus through mixed media figurative and non objective work and personal portrait masks while working in varied applications and disciplines.
Kearns has numerous pieces in private collections, has exhibited solo as well as in group exhibits.
professional organizations
Member: Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh
South Hills Art League
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