The Art of Attachment: Screenprints by Clare Winslow
February 24 - March 24, 2024
Glen Echo Park’s Park View Gallery
This page is an online version of my solo exhibit of recent screenprints. For a description of the exhibit, please see text below.
The Park View Gallery presents The Art of Attachment: Screenprints by Clare Winslow. This exhibition consists of abstract screenprints on heavyweight printmaking paper, or Yupo (polypropylene). Many are influenced by the Buddhist idea of “attachment” as well as what happens during meditation.
Winslow draws inspiration from a quote by Vietnamese monastic and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh: “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
Artist Biography
Clare Winslow is an interdisciplinary artist known for her prints and paintings relating to time, nature, and current events. As a child and grandchild of Washington DC painters, Winslow grew up enveloped in vibrant art and is a strong proponent of its power to promote unity and transformation.
Her training includes a degree in painting, a degree in Teaching, and postgraduate study in printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art. Her focus is on combining a range of artistic interests: drawing, photography, digital imaging, printmaking and painting. Influences include two years in Japan, contemporary abstraction, and a daily meditation practice. Winslow has exhibited widely in the Washington DC area and internationally.
According to the artist, “Each project challenges me to maintain a delicate balance between process and feeling.”
Artist Statement
While I believe an artist doesn’t need to wait for a ‘lightning bolt’ of inspiration to create impactful work, I do draw creative fuel from the natural world, places I have lived, the work of other artists, and my response to current events. Common to much of the work is a playful interest in abstracted anthropomorphic forms, which, teetering between frenetic and calm, stand in for the fragility and resilience of the human condition, especially under duress.
My current focus is on screen printing, where I take an unconventional approach—I see it as a form of painting. I often print on salvaged or challenging nonabsorbent material and deliberately circumvent the process by smudging, wiping away, brushing, spraying, misprinting, or running the printed mark off the edge. I do not try to produce a perfectly printed piece, nor do I count the number of layers, as is usual.
I like to think that the art reveals what it feels like to live in this moment in time.