Johanna Baruch
 

“When I first saw the photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, something profound shifted inside of me – as if I had suddenly found something I knew intimately, yet didn’t know I had lost.  The pictures of deep space beckoned to me, or rather, its gravity pulled me inexorably into it.  The beauty, color and movement, the astonishing science and ultimate mystery of the cosmos were like songs that called to be sung.  And so I did, through paint.”

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“To watch her paintings is to dance along with her own wise eyes, which do not simply imagine, but manage to divine the colors and forms not just of the stars but of the raw matter that binds them.” — John Beebe