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Nolan Winkler Captures A Unicorn  2012

4/6/2014

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Nolan Winkler Captures A Unicorn  2012
By Kathleen Sloan

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So much of what an artist does is doing it a zillion times. Mastery, says Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers, comes after about ten years or 10,000 hours devoted to the thing. Nolan Winkler’s show at Rio Bravo Fine Art is way beyond the first decanting of ten-year-mastery.  She must have put ten years each into the separate elements of composition, touch/ texture and color and then another ten into mixing them into complex or simplified bouquets.

Here is young exuberance flashing into spring light. Here is wizened marshaled strength walking through dimmed winter. 

In a word, Nolan Winkler has range—a five-octave range--a cellar full of fine wine—a fleet of ships at her command.

Countless artists have said they do art to see what they and the world are about. They become as they do. These are the process and expressionist artists who do not intellectualize. They are the feelers and doers. They are also the hardest to write about, inciting adjectives and metaphors. 

Joseph Campbell, author of Hero with a Thousand Faces, made a distinction. He said the male part of our androgynous selves travels an external labyrinth and in that way, buffeted by the world, learns about himself, if he bothers to reflect. More likely an organic knowing, not an analytical summation, is at the end of the journey.

Campbell said the female part, with the mystery of creation already within, travels an internal labyrinth. Odysseus goes on a 20-year journey and comes back to Penelope, who spun and re-spun a garment, a labyrinthine journey from home.

Winkler is more Odysseus than Penelope. Asked what the recurring circles mean to her, made using cut potatoes as a printing device, it was obviously the wrong and therefore telling question. She said “you could try to come up with something,” but the non-meaning, the blankness, the non-referential quality is why she uses circles. That is Odysseus traveling with no-mind—just being.

Many of the works have flowers, which are one of the most seminal symbolic objects on the planet—with so many references and feelings attached a fugue state or similar no-mind results, just as with the circles.

The flora and fauna are non-subject subject matter on which Winkler can riff and spin her masterful drawing, texture and color. The living line, the sense of traveling, the mood of seasons come to the fore. Winkler captures a unicorn—ephemera—her loose glorious dexterity and color calls it into being just shy of naming it, keeping the spark of creation on the canvas.

Two favorites, and then I leave you to wander among the works. To the left of the door are six works on paper, hung together. They work as a whole and individually. The theme is ‘garden.’ This is Winkler composing with all elements, holding six steeds at once by their reins going very fast.

“I Wake With Wonder, I Wake at Half Past Four,” a painting that delivers on the title, is a marvelous analogue of grey blue and dawn yellow, impossible to describe—but not to experience. 
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3 Comments
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7/22/2016 08:43:17 am

BOY! Kathleen Sloan (now in another state), do I ever miss your reviews of my work. Thanks so much for this. I'm still using it. Smiles.

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2/1/2021 11:09:05 am

Great blog I enjoyyed reading

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8/12/2022 03:58:57 am

Great reading your bllog

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  • HOME
    • ABOUT RBFA
    • Gallery Calendar 2023
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    • Darlene Olivia McElroy & Paul White >
      • More About The Artists
    • Gregory Montreuil
    • The Border Artists
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    • Exhibition Preview
    • Paintings Linocuts And Etchings
    • Polaroids
    • About Joe
  • GALLERY ARTISTS INDEX
    • Roy van der Aa
    • Martye Allen >
      • Martye Allen Profile
    • Wiz Allred >
      • About Wiz Allred
    • Dave Barnett >
      • Dave Barnett Resume'
    • Delmas Howe >
      • Delmas Howe Resume' And More
    • Sandy Hopper
    • Noël Hudson >
      • Noel Hudson Resume'
    • Katharine Kreisher
    • Julia Masaoka
    • Tyler Mason
    • Darlene Olivia McElroy >
      • About Darlene Olivia McElroy
    • Donna Monroe
    • Gregory Montreuil
    • Graham Murtough
    • Deborah Mushock
    • Leo Neufeld
    • Susan Noreen
    • Ricky Padilla
    • Miguel Pino
    • William Bertrum Sharp
    • Joel Smith >
      • Joel Smith Resume'
    • Rebecca Speakes
    • Nolan Winkler >
      • Nolan Winkler Resume'
  • RECENT PAST EXHIBITIONS
    • Nolan Winkler REVISITED +
    • LANA DURA/Minna White >
      • Art and Legacy of the Navajo-Churro Sheep
      • About Felt
    • Leo Neufeld Exhibition
    • Jeanne Rundell & Nolan Winkler
    • Roy van der Aa 2022 Exhibition
    • Noël Hudson
    • Suzanne Pointon
    • Julia Masaoka Exhibition
    • In A Small Way
    • Tyler Mason Exhibition
    • Mannequin Mayhem >
      • Mannequin Mayham Artists Index
    • Nolan Winkler Blooms Exhibition
    • Susan A. Christie From The Studio Exhibition
    • Sandy Hopper Interweaving
    • Delmas Howe Guys and Canyons
    • Santa Fe Community College Show
    • Tondo Rotondo
    • Rebecca Speakes
    • ​Gregory Grafwallner Exhibition
    • Wendy Tremayne Exhibition
    • Martye Allen Exhibition 2021
    • 2021/22 GALLERY ARTISTS' SHOW
    • Donna Monroe Retrospective >
      • Curator Statement
    • Graham Murtough
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    • From The Winkler Collection
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