JOANNE F. FILLETTI

section from " I Was Here", 2019 drawing installation

from "I Was Here", 2019 drawing installation

section from "The Space Between", 2015 paper sculpture installation

2015 paper sculpture installation

2015 paper sculpture installation

2015 paper sculpture installation

part of "The Space Between" drawing installation, 2015

2015 paper sculpture installation

2015 paper sculpture installation

2015 paper sculpture installation

2011 From the Pin Up Series 1/5, graphite on gessoed Stonehenge

2006 drawing installation 15 graphite drawings on gessoed board

2012 conte on Mylar

2012 ink on paper

oil stick on Mylar 2012

2012 ink on paper

2006 1/15 Death Row drawing installation

2006 1/15 Death Row drawing installation
ARTIST STATEMENT
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Drawing is how I see the world, how I make sense of it, how I articulate my profound discomfort in it and how I make my peace with this discomfort and thus retain a mite of sovereignty in it.
Drawing and seeing are inextricably linked. It engages me with my environment. It is difficult as there is nothing to hide behind - the maker is laid bare. It keeps me vulnerable and open. It is exhilarating to have such direct contact to mark making. It is as primal and pleasurable for me as playing in sand or soil.
I am perpetually captivated by representational imagery as a vehicle to discuss elements of the human condition that confounds, horrifies and moves me. The human figure is especially potent; it is a subject that can be mined for the political, the social and the spiritual components of a condition that is as a trough brimming to full with despair and profound loneliness. As I gain a better understanding of subjects that I am compelled to draw and find so deeply moving, I consequently challenge my perception of what is real and how things actually work and interact. For a drawing to ever be successful, I must completely surrender to it, without judgement, merely to record what I see.
