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AN ARTIST FINDS INSPIRATION IN VIBRANT COLOR — AND IN THE GLITTERING NIGHT SKY
by Edward M. Gómez
Every artist has a story to tell. Sometimes artists’ personal stories are reflected vividly in their work if or when their lives become their subject matter. In other cases, the evolution of their work — how they handle their materials and develop technically, or how they think about and present their themes — can become a focal point of their art.
The artist Julia Sisi, who was born in Argentina in 1957, and now lives and works in a small town in France, kindly allowed us to reproduce her colorful drawing “Winter,” from 2020 (below), now that we have the current season’s chilly charms on our mind. As e-mail messages went back and forth, we caught up with her and, from one pandemic-isolation chamber to another, conducted an interview that shed some light on how drawings like “Winter” have become representative of the work Sisi has been producing in recent years.
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Some excerpts from our long-distance chat, which took place over mugs of winter grog:
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