Chasing
Waterfalls
A Chat with Mariella Bisson
By
Ross RicePeteter
Aaron
...As
well as the group show she is in this month at Elena Zang
Gallery in Shady (Woodstock), she has an upcoming month-long
residency at Breckenridge, where she’s excited about
getting in some skiing, and some exciting new vistas to capture.
When
asked about what she thinks the future holds, she answers
like a true ex-Vermonter: directly and pragmatically. “The
next big experiment is to see if I can make these collage
schemes work on stretched canvas, and if I can, that will
really be a breakthrough, because you can stretch a canvas
really big, and it’s not heavy, and it’s more
like a painting. And I’ve also been using water-based
oil paint, which sounds like a complete contradiction of terms.
The paint is new to the market, the company still working
on their formulas for it and so forth. It’s getting
better, and I’m getting better with it, so I’ve
gone from watercolor to gouache [and] now I’ve introduced
the water-based oil paint, I see myself coming closer to painting
actually,all the time.”
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