Hauser Gives Interview On Mixed Media Paintings

Gwen Hauser ’72 recently gave an interview regarding her artwork.

In an interview with White Bear Press, Hauser talked about what got her to start painting, and gave insight into why she paints. Hauser works with an unstretched canvas, then applies paint, plaster, gold leaf and copper leaf onto it, along with antique photographs and newspaper clippings ranging from the 1880s to the late 1920s.

"I created the Maps Series to chart and explore my grief and find a way through loss," Hauser has said about her work. "For me, the painting process is similar to driving a pole into the ground, an axis mundi, where I can find my centering point: a place where opposites — darkness and illumination — belong together and contradictions — movement and stability — form a complementarity."

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• Artist tells history through newspaper clippings
  (presspubs.com–January 31, 2024)