My life unfolded in distant places: Italy, Kenya, New York City and more recently Ireland and the Isle of Skye.
Though rooted in drawing and painting my work, nourished by writings, often includes various experimental forms – installations, sculptures, textiles and artist’s books. What interests me is a fading of the self into a more impersonal process, a love and affection for the language and materials in which and from which the object is revealed, the oneness between the made and the maker. As the ego begins to dissolve in presence, ‘the picture draws the picture’, ‘the fabric weaves the fabric’, ‘the color paints the color’. Constant motifs are home, identity, rebirth, memory, and above all nature. Paintings have been described as increments of time and marks in a meditative moment, where the kind of glow-time is infinite in both directions, outward in accumulated, immeasurable brush strokes and inward towards a glow point. Music exemplifies it best — retaining previous notes to understand the whole body of music, my painting does something similar — back in time and forward in time. The work is constantly unfolding, it is a process of transformation and renewal, a ‘descent’ into the light.
Kikki Ghezzi’s work is part of private and public collections, including MuSa, La Civica Raccolta del Disegno Museo di Salo,’ Italy, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, Villa Firenze and the Italian Embassy, Washington D.C., Strule Arts Centre, Ireland, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.