Joan Albaugh

Throughout my career as an artist, certain themes and images have remained constant.  These themes and images, though they may fluctuate and change over the years, their essence continues to weave in and out of my work.  Be it an isolated house, an empty pool, a snorkeler, a barn or an iceberg, these images are all echoes of a story – a story perhaps without a plot that continues to unfold.

My paintings at times reflect different aspects and chapters of my story and while I might expand my painterly vocabulary with different symbol it is most often the house or isolated structure that I return to repeatedly. So, it is very appropriate for me to bring together a series of barns for this show.

Like the house I am drawn to, it is the lone isolated barn that speaks to me.  The historic structure and traditional simple functional architecture of the barn breaths a certain remembrance of things past, a memory found, a connection captured.  Their ambiguous isolation, or perhaps abandonment, speaks to our changing landscape and time.