Helen
Shulman
Out of Nowhere
2007, oil on muslin over panel, 26" x 36", not for sale |
Helen
Shulman
GALLERY IX
"All my work is quiet," says former therapist Helen Shulman.
"I grew up in Amish country, in Ohio. Our house, for a while,
had no electricity. Then it was the only electrified house on the
road. Cars didn’t pass, buggies did. There were farms, but
no farm machinery. Horses pulled plows, cultivators, hay wagons.
It was quiet, like the kind of quiet that only happens now in a
blackout. When I practiced psychotherapy, my office, too, was quiet,
and I sat quietly." As a painter, Shulman hopes her work will
trap people into an instant of quiet so that they may, without knowing
that it’s about to happen, find themselves in a momentary
soundless vortex steering them to the infrequently heard messages
that dwell deep within and to the regularly drowned out sounds of
beauty around them. |
