Audrey Skuodas

Bride

This original Audrey Skuodas oil painting includes an affixed soft, stitched three-dimensional sculpture (representing the bride with painted face and hair, her corsage, a pillow and the moon). "Bride" challenges all our collective and cultural feelings in respect to matrimony and womanhood. This painting is signed, "Audrey Skuodas" and dated, "73" by the artist on the verso. It is a fine, original example of the art created by the contemporary Lithuanian / American painter and sculptor, Audrey Skuodas.

Original Oil Painting on Canvas and Stitched Three Dimensional by the Lithuanian / American artist, Audrey Skuodas 'Audrone Skuodas'.

Bride

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Title:	Bride
Artist:	Skoudas, Audrey (Kaunas, Lithuania, c. 1940 - Resides, Oberlin, Ohio)
Date:	1973
Medium:	Original Oil Painting on Canvas and Stitched Three Dimensional Sculpture
Note:	Audrey Skuodas 'Audrone Skuodas': "I know that people do react to my paintings, and not always positively, very often not positively. They are intimidated. They either can't look at it or are angry about it or they are troubled by it, but they certainly do have to react to it. In a sense that's a guarantee that I have communicated something. That's the nature of art, that's its purpose. To arouse something, to awaken something, to touch a sensibility or a chord that perhaps one hasn't been aware of." *
	A contemporary painter and sculptor, Audrey (Audrone) Skuodas was born in Lithuania and spent her first years of life in a displaced persons camp in Germany, as her family was fleeing from Stalin's army. Along with her family, she moved to the United States in 1949 and settled in DeKalb, Illinois. Audrey Skuodas began her art studies at Northern Illinois University in 1958, receiving a B.A. in 1962 and a M.A. in 1964. During the ensuing years she taught painting techniques in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is currently married to the artist and Oberlin College professor of art, John Pearson, and has served as a guest lecturer there.
	The paintings and sculptures of Audrey Skuodas have been widely exhibited at institutions in Cleveland, Chicago, Evanston and Santa Fe. Today her art is found in many major collections, including the Butler Museum of American Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
	Audrey Skuodas's art has often drawn from critics such labels as 'Surrealist' and 'Art Deco'. Yet her art is distinctly her own and, like any great creator, it raises more questions than answers. On the art of Audrey Skuodas, Stella Pagalys Rosenfeld writes,
	"Indeed, Audrey Skuodas's pictures are in a sense mystifications, possibly latent allegories, though not necessarily deliberate or conscious. They seem to be telling something, a story of love perhaps, of human relationships, but its meaning inevitably eludes the viewer. Figures, primarily female, stand or sit mysteriously silent and still, as though caught in the middle of a motion -- a dreamlike motion. ... The motionless, often unnatural stances of the figures seem so deliberately affected by the artist that they appear almost symbolic, as do the giant voluptuous flowers, the stylized and fanciful drapings, the windows, the seascapes and the enigmatic, Magritte-like transparent silhouettes. Quite clearly the artist is indulging in certain fancies and fantasies; the paintings seem to represent an aesthete's dream world, and the responsive viewer asks oneself: what are these women dreaming about, what are they waiting for, longing for? What has just happened and what is about to happen?" **
	These words clearly apply to Bride, a most compelling painting and stitched three-dimensional sculpture. At the very least it challenges all our collective and cultural feelings in respect to matrimony and womanhood.
Referene:	* & *, Stella Pagalys Rosenfeld, Concerning the Art of Audrey Skuodas*, "Lituanus: Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences", Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 1984, pp. 1 - 4. (http://www.lituanus.org/1984-1/84-1-02.htm)
Size:	16 X 20 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Buy Now	Price: $595.00 US
Condition:	Painted upon stretched canvas in which soft, stitched three-dimensional sculptures (representing the bride with painted face and hair, her corsage, a pillow and the moon) have been affixed. Signed, "Audrey Skuodas" and dated, "73" on the verso. In excellent condition throughout without a trace of deterioration. Bride represents a superb, original example of the art of Audrey (Audrone) Skuodas.
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