Hawaii based artist Deb Nehmad is this week’s guest blogger for our Artist as Collector Series.
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| Jo Rowley Round Pegs in a Square Box Ceramic ©JohanetteRowley |
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| Round Pegs in a Square Box, detail ©JohanetteRowley |
I was attracted to the Four Pegs by the amazingly beautiful and obsessive tattoos painted onto the figures, but further moved and intrigued when Jo told me that these were part of a new series where she is forming the faces of her figures with her eyes closed and sculpting the clay completely by touch.
“Round Pegs in a Square Box” and a companion piece, “Winkin’ Blinkin” and Odd” now sit prominently in my living room where we interact on a daily basis.
Deborah G. Nehmad is a Honolulu based artist working with paper with which she repetitively burns, etches, draws and scrapes her own visual vocabulary that references the body marked by pain. Her current work addresses anguish on a broader scale incorporating her obsessive mark making to translate visually her concern with global issues of war and violence.