2009 Losing Ground
Losing Ground As our global population increases exponentially, the effects of our actions are changing the environment. With global warming and the melting polar icecaps contributing to rising ocean levels, we are literally and figuratively losing ground. Losing Ground, an exhibition and an artist book, also called “Losing Ground”, were shown as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival […]
2007 Viewpoint
Viewpoint Viewpoint For a quarter century my home and studio, “Viewpoint”, has been on a small island south of Boston. With the historic North River on one side, the South River on the other and Massachusetts Bay ahead, the island is connected to the mainland by a short causeway. The village of Marshfield Hills, as […]
2006 Ars Longa
Ars Longa – Vita Brevis: This work was produced during an Artist-in-Residency at Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library, one of the world’s leading medical history collections. It incorporates photographs of their anatomical specimens, medical artifacts, rare books and manuscripts. A PDF file of the exhibition catalog with essays about the collection and the art can be opened in […]
2005 Passages
Passages Passages Passages include doors, windows, tunnels, openings, corridors. The term also encompasses movement from one place to another, the transition from one condition or state to another, and the right or permission to come and go freely. We speak of passing time, safe passage, and “passing over” or dying. These images reference those varied meanings […]
2005 Reflective Visions
Reflective Vision Reflective Vision The title of this series, Reflective Vision, was chosen for it’s multiple meanings. The subject matter, doors, windows and passageways, are both vision and illusion while the concept behind the series, the “vision” of the artist, is also reflection, contemplation. Both physically and metaphorically, we do not see without some form […]
2005 Jewel
Jewel Jewel In the winter of 2004 I spent three weeks in India – Bombay, Jaipur, Agra, Delhi, Chennai and Goa. I kept a visual journal, “India” which incorporated ephemera collected during my travels. On my return I scanned the pages and combined them with photographs I had taken along the way. Handmade brown Indian bagasse with […]
2004 Fragile Beauty
Fragile Beauty Fragile Beauty Each image was created by digitally combining a painting with a photograph. The composite images were printed with pigment inks on paper, linen canvas, metal or film, which was used as a monoprint to transfer onto the fresco surfaces. The printed images, 24″ x 24″, (diptychs 24″ x 48″), were further […]
2003 SacredSpaces
Sacred Spaces sacred spaces These sacred spaces are not religious shrines or destinations for pilgrims, but are the nearby places that still the mind, nourish the soul and provide a refuge for reflection and contemplation. Inkjet prints on textured substrates and metal with traditional mixed media, 24″ x24″. For the use of her source image Viola […]
2003 Body+Soul
Body + Soul body + soul body + soul began with a series of photographs taken of twin performance artists, Emily and Abigail Taylor. It was done for a solo exhibition, “Dorothy Simpson Krause: body + soul” at the Danforth Museum of Art in Spring 2003. The series includes several groupings of images and two books, Vengeance is […]
2002 Promised Land
Promised Land Promised Land On September 11 I was in the Middle East on my continuing quest to understand why, in the name of religion, one would kill another who did not share their beliefs. The evening before I had crossed the border to Israel from Jordan, where I had been photographing Petra. The collaged journal […]