Alicia Kogut, "From Separately."

60x50, oil on canvas, 2020

This is what she says about herself, "Art school, work as a teacher and art instructor are long behind me, so I can finally paint what's in my soul, which is more with my heart than with my mind. It is said that "every age has its rights," so I have given myself the right to fireworks of color, flying houses, ladders to the sky, my own moon and my own sun. I turn everyday reality into colorful abstractions, surreal landscapes, trees growing in the clouds (...). I have the right and joy in breaking perspective correctness, twisting obvious shapes and reversing chiaroscuro. I paint for myself and for those who like the world seen from the better side. I see how the wrinkles of everyday life in its busyness and toil can be smoothed out with a little color, fantasy and joy.