“Ontario Snow Forms”
2006 layered chalk pastel on vellum 24 x 36 in
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“Warm Winter”
2007 chalk pastel on board 48 x 48 in
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“The Exit”
2007 oil paint on canvas 48 x 96 inches
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“Gone”
2007 chalk pastel on board 48 x 48 in
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“Storm in the Gravelly”
2008 oil paint on primed 300lb rag paper 43 x 48 in
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September 11 Triptych 2002
graphite, oil pastel, with collage of a charcoal drawing study of de Kooning’s “Excavation” 48 x 144 in
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Permanent Collection of the September 11 Museum in New York City
“Forest Orchids”
2008 oil paint on canvas 48 x 48 inches
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“Lady Slipper”
2008 oil paint on canvas 12 x 9 inches
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“Male Counterpart”
2009 oil paint on canvas 52 x 36 inches
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“Moonlight Landscape”
2009 oil paint on canvas 48 x 96 inches
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“Tetons in the Mist”
2008 oil paint on canvas 48 x 60 in
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“After the Storm”
2003 chalk pastel on 300lb rag paper 41 x 61 inches
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“States of Reality” - a six part painting
2010 oil paint on yupo and vellum mounted on clayboard
each panel is 16 x 20 inches
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“La Gavotte” (16 canvases)
2011 oil paint on canvas 72 x 108 inches
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“Lie Here and Wait”
2011 watercolor on rag paper 22 x 30 inches
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“Melting Snow”
2011 watercolor on rag paper 24 x 22 inches
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"The September 11 Triptych"
A few days after the World Trade Towers fell I had to go to Ground Zero to try to comprehend what had happened. The sky was capped with a lid of smoke. Time stood still in the continuity of the fires and emergency lights. There was no sense of day or night. The wreckage turned the space inside out and upside down. Everything on the ground had a new unified identity called “rubble”. The landscape itself was transformed into de Kooning’s painting “Excavation”.
I stayed at Ground Zero for a full day taking it all in - the images, the feelings, the smoke and gray ash. When I returned to the studio I cut up a charcoal study that I had previously drawn from my mentor's painting “Excavation”, and started to build the foundation of the triptych with the collage of the drawing parts. By adding graphite and acrylic gel medium with a brush, and drawing with oil pastels my observations and sensations unfolded onto three panels.
A year after the "September 11 Triptych" was completed I learned that de Kooning had used a reproduction of Brueghel’s “The Triumph of Death” to inspire his painting “Excavation”. Brueghel’s Medieval painting depicts the doom that humanity self-inflicts through war, religious intolerance, greed, and other destructive tendencies. Brueghel’s subject has repeated itself throughout the years all over the world, and it found its way into “Excavation”, and de Kooning passed it on to me in the “September 11 Triptych”.
Joan Levy Hepburn 2011
“The Gravelly” (Beaverhead National Forest, Montana)
2001 & 2011 oil pastel on 300lb rag paper 51 x 93 inches
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“Changing Horses in Mid Stream” (The Stream Series)
2013 oil paint on canvas 36 x 48 inches
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“Heads and Tails” (The Stream Series)
2013 oil paint on canvas 36 x 48 inches
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“Cave Entrance” (The Stream Series)
2013 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches
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“Ancient Civilization” (The Stream Series)
2013 oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches
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