BARBARA KACICEK / Paintings and Drawings

'I am leading myself to a secret dream that I have had over and over again ...'

WINTER PLUMS

oil on linen mounted on panel / 7.75" x 7.75" / unframed

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SIREN

charcoal on paper / 6.5" x 11" / archivally matted and framed

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TEAR OF THE MOON / PORTRAIT OF ORIANA

charcoal on paper / 9" x 12.5" / matted and framed / price upon request

SEVENTH MOON

charcoal on paper / 10" x 12" / matted and framed / price upon request

WHAT CAN I DO WITH THIS ETERNAL LONGING

charcoal on paper / 13" x 18" / matted and framed / price upon request

IMMERSION

charcoal on paper / 14" x 19" / matted and framed / price upon request

" ... there has been a tragic depreciation in the traditional skills of painting and drawing, the nuts and bolts of the profession. In part it has been caused by the assumption that it's photography and its cognate media - film and TV - that tell the most truth about the visual. It's not true. The camera, if it's lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one. Drawing brings us into a different, a deeper and more fully experienced relation to the object. A good drawing says: "not so fast, buster". We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in 10 seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media. For no spiritually authentic art can beat mass media at their own game. But drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies - the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about - is apparently immortal."

- Robert Hughes