Landscapes of the Mind IV - Oil on Canvas 48'' x 48''

Boston-based painter, Sandra Mueller-Dick, channels her personal experiences and interests into murky, ghostly visions. Though many of her works evoke figures and landscapes, she swaths these forms in layers of colors applied in kinetic, swirling patterns that create the effect of peering into foggy memories. Through these clouds, glimmers of bodies, valleys and rivers struggle to define themselves against deep red, blue, green and yellow mists. This theme of incomplete memory and blurry vision emerged in Mueller-Dick’s art when her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. These canvases that never reveal their subjects and sometimes feature blacked-out corners represent absent memories, pieces missing from life’s puzzle, but they also provoke active imagination. Teetering on the edge of abstraction with often only the faintest echoes of landscapes and bodies—many of which are inspired by her interests in yoga and dance—Mueller- Dick’s expressionist style presents viewers with a colorful ghost world open to introspective exploration. These spaces and forms, visible in outline but not filled out, invite viewers to contribute their own partial remembrances. Owing perhaps to her work as a gallery instructor at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, her paintings mediate personal therapeutic projects and thematic interests while remaining open to shifting meanings and approaches. Mueller-Dick creates spaces for our forgotten dreams by visualizing partial memories.

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