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With symbolic imagery, simplicity of form and the use of traditional methods,
Claudia Kleefeld paints contemporary figurative oil paintings.
"To formulate what I am doing in my work into words, I can say that I have a deep sensitivity to what is around me. I have known there is this path for me yet I could not define it. In the beginning I did not know what it was that drew me so forcefully into this mysterious process of painting, photography and the creative process.
As I go, I find out more about this and it's parallel relationship to daily life.
I have always been fascinated and inspired by people. Through years of studying art in both Europe and the United States, I began to focus my attentions in the studio to the exclusive study of the nude. I can achieve what is most deep within me through re-creating the human form. There are many reasons why I have chosen the female figure. Mostly she is close to me, to who I am, and I find it the most primal and the most challenging. The female in it's inherent self is more nurturing, more round, more earth based - the essence of giving and birth, of life itself. It is my belief that we need this input in our more linear, modern society today. In this context the female form is not sexual - she is not an image to be digested for self- satisfaction or use. She is inherent of deeper meaning; about human beings, our essence, and what is ultimately of most importance.
The external/internal series of images are self-portrait nudes double imaged with a female sexual icon. All of the aspects in this series revolve around the relationship between inner self and projected self. The viewer is placed in the position of confronting the facades they fix upon themselves and others. These and other works focus on issues of self, sexuality and identity; a search for self, different than the one we adopt from the society around us."
Welcome to kleefeldart.com.
Figurative oil paintings by Claudia Eve Kleefeld
telephone & fax: 575.751.4608 | kleefeld@newmex.com
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