{"id":4649,"date":"2010-01-27T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compeung.org\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2017-11-24T01:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:33:03","slug":"artist-marietta-patricia-leis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-marietta-patricia-leis\/","title":{"rendered":"Marietta Patricia Leis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>GREEN ABUNDANCE<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Color is central to my art. Color startles, it stimulates. Color reels us backwards into memories; it teases out emotions. Color has the power to move us influencing how we view the world. The reductive, lush paintings in\u00a0<i>Green Abundance\u00a0<\/i>are intended to reveal the deep nature of green and its associations to place, to spirit and to the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I had been painting the color blue influenced by the seas and sky for 8 years when I applied and was subsequently accepted for a ComPeung Artist Residency. I choose Northern Thailand as I wanted to immerse myself in the color green to move away from the open ethereal blues and feel the earth and groundedness.<\/p>\n<p>ComPeung provided a rich and fertile place to immerse myself. There are many layers of different life forms teeming within its environs. To capture more of these layers I expanded beyond oil painting to videos, photographs, poetry and sculpture. The exhibit that evolved from my residency includes over 40 pieces of art that form an integrated visual feast.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bit of a ying and yang to this body of work. Confronted with so much that is beautiful, ample and good I was nudged to think about the opposite, about inequities, and the disproportionate distribution of resources. The poetry I created for\u00a0<i>Green Abundance<\/i>\u00a0references some of these dichotomies. The beauty of the work is intended to draw people in where they can then contemplate the deeper thoughts embedded in the work<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariettaleis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mariettaleis.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN ABUNDANCE Color is central to my art. Color startles, it stimulates. Color reels us backwards into memories; it teases out emotions. Color has the power to move us influencing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-marietta-patricia-leis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>explore this artist(s)<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marietta Patricia Leis<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-drawing","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}