Barbara Fugate
Barbara Fugate's drawings and paintings are powerful and provocative. Her focus is the human form. She works intensely and rigorously with her models, always searching for the ultimate means to depict their vital presence.
Fugate received her BFA from Western Kentucky University and her MFA in painting from Miami University of Ohio. She taught foundation drawing classes as a graduate teaching assistant at Miami University, prior to teaching in an artist-in-residence program in Darmstadt, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Kentucky, Washington and New York and published in The Best of Drawing and Sketching by Terry Sullivan. In 2005, Fugate was invited to lecture at Harvard University on her drawing method in a lecture entitled Gesture Drawing: That Which Shows Itself In Itself, in conjunction with the World Phenomenology Institute conference.
Teaching Philosophy
Fugate's teaching philosophy is tied to the philosophy of her own work. She strives to instill in students an enthusiasm and respect for the content of their work and assists them in effectively expressing their own ideas in visual terms. She provides instruction in the fundamentals of art while encouraging individual interpretation. Fugate has taught drawing classes and workshops at the Academy since 1994. In the spring quarters of 1994-1999 she led the all-women figure drawing retreat in Breitenbush, Oregon.
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Artist's Statement
Drawing and painting is most importantly an experience. It is an experience that is all-encompassing emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Drawing and painting from life requires complete presence of mind and full participation with the materials, the model and the artist. This interface is imperative for me to make pictures that respect the life form from which it is made and convey life to its subsequent viewer. The artist is what she draws or paints and you are what you see.
My paintings and drawings are inspired by the Baroque idiom, as I work from direct observation to record the movement of matter and form through time and space. I am interested in capturing a sense of the splintered consciousness and multidimensional demands that many of us have quickly grown accustomed to in our daily activities by employing often disparate colors and fractured marks that are analogous to these continual transitions from one reality to another-both physical and virtual. I want to evoke the experience of how we are rather than what we are today.
Drawing and painting is most importantly an experience. It is an experience that is all-encompassing emotionally, spiritually and intellectually. Drawing and painting from life requires complete presence of mind and full participation with the materials, the model and the artist. This interface is imperative for me to make pictures that respect the life form from which it is made and convey life to its subsequent viewer. The artist is what she draws or paints and you are what you see.
My paintings and drawings are inspired by the Baroque idiom, as I work from direct observation to record the movement of matter and form through time and space. I am interested in capturing a sense of the splintered consciousness and multidimensional demands that many of us have quickly grown accustomed to in our daily activities by employing often disparate colors and fractured marks that are analogous to these continual transitions from one reality to another-both physical and virtual. I want to evoke the experience of how we are rather than what we are today.