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Carol Bruns
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  Beginning as an artist in the mid 1960's, an ongoing theme has been the interplay between the fire of ideas and the expressive language of the body, and its appearance in art. The art making has asked for new ways to think about art, for new language to express the present. This project has become a confrontation with the Western mindset, one lodged in either/or, materialism, literalism, and proposes alternative perspectives. An early influence from l965 on was Eva Hesse who made the industrial language of minimalism her own--- earthy, organic, and related to the body. Her studio visit was inspiring and in the 70s I took up her attitude, along with the deconstructive idea of the time, recasting the elements of painting (Gesso Works 1974-78). Throughout the eighties and early nineties I lived and painted from lofts in Soho. Louise Bourgeois showed there, appeared at AIR meetings, and I later attended the salon she held in her home. Her approach to sculpture, emanating from emotion, memory, and psychology, encourages me. My work shifted to sculpture, and I moved to Dumbo in Brooklyn where I work today. Strands of overlapping influence grew: practicing tai chi chuan, with the Tao's inseparability of opposites; Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne rupturing linear and logical art history with image clusters and the god Atlas of antiquity who upheld the threshold between night and day; Jungian thought which shows the psyche in myth. Thus, the art is nourished by the contemporary, but has imported its primary energy from outside the artworld. The custom modeling methods and techniques using paper and original gesso, cast this new energy into form. My sculpture and drawing affirm the fertility and inseparability of idea and emotion, bring to visibility ancient hidden structures of meaning, and aim to function socially by reawakening public space with new means of reflection. Links: Eva Hesse Louise Bourgeois Chen Man Ching References: James Hillman, Archetypal Psychology Marie-Louise von Franz, Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche Rafael Lopex-Pedraza, Cultural Anxiety
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All images copyright Carol Bruns An icompendium Site 
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