JoAnneh Nagler<\/em> is an abstract painter living in San Francisco that primarily works in acrylic paintings.<\/p>\n

‘The folk singer Odetta once said, \u201cOne day while you\u2019re walking down life\u2019s road you may reach a fork, and at that fork you\u2019ll have to insist upon your own life and the creative human spirit that\u2019s within you with all your might.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Since my own fork in the road\u2014since my decision to become a working artist\u2014I\u2019ve tried to listen as closely as possible to that \u201chuman spirit\u201d and its illuminating voice. It wasn\u2019t easy to commit to, and it has taken discipline to work my artistry every day: to show up, to do the work for the work\u2019s sake, and to trust.<\/em><\/p>\n

Any art form\u2014poetry, dance, painting\u2014is a continuing education: one never \u201cgraduates,\u201d one only explores and discovers. After a while, after the immersion (as I like to call it), the exploration itself becomes the gift\u2014or as Jimmy Page says in the recent documentary It Might Get Loud, \u201cThe spark becomes the point, then, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To paint in the abstract is to court faith, because what\u2019s \u201cthere\u201d is not recognizable in a traditional artistic sense: it must resonate beyond form. I cultivate that faith.’<\/em><\/p>\n

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