Felicia R. Glidden

Category: drawing

  • Impression | Abdruck

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    Katrin Seglitz Speech for the vernissage of the exhibition “Impression/Abdruck” by Felicia Glidden on 17.1.2020at the Kunsthaus Caserne in Friedrichshafen Fallenbrunnen When you come into this room, you are impressed by the large-format works hanging here. Impression/Printing is what Felicia called the exhibition, and both words have a courtyard of meaning: In Impression, we hear…

  • Believe Me (It’ll be Great)

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    These paintings evolved from the Trashquilt project.  During the 2016 USA election, I started noticing the repetition of the words “Believe me” and “Trust me” as qualifiers. Usually, these words are followed by lies.

  • Trashquilt Tête du Travers

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    This series of large drawings was made surrounding the 2016 US election. The text, “Between the Darkness of the Sun and Moon, ” was written in March 2015, five days after a young pilot intentionally flew an airplane with 149 passengers into the French Alps. I continued working on it in 2017 and began to…

  • Trashquilt

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    On February 15, 2016, I read this photo caption in the New York Times “Recology, San Francisco’s main recycling plant collects 100 tons of cardboard every day.”   I had already started collecting plastic, cardboard, and wax paper that surrounds the food which I buy at the grocery store.  We shop online and I am surrounded…