Artist Bio - Constance Meade (Feminine Mystique Art Gallery)

 

Constance Meade has lived in many places and has always created art, but not until she moved to Arizona did she find herself living in a place that truly fit her spirit, her sensibilities and her artistic expression. The desert has become her home, and in it her artwork continues to grow, celebrating the rugged beauty of the Southwest and reflecting a lifelong passion for gathering found objects, both from the natural world and the world of human beings.                                                              

 

 Organic and inorganic objects are collected because something in them catches the eye: the form, the color, or a more subtle feeling surrounding the piece. Her work often takes objects which have been cast off and are generally deemed worthless and gives them meaning and value. The items used in her art come from many places and times in her life: beaches, junkyards, deserts and America’s highways – and they are sometimes in her collection of materials for years before being used. The irregularities caused by age and degeneration of materials left to the elements before being found add to their beauty and become essential elements in the artwork.                                                                                                               

 

 Three-dimensional collage and assemblage techniques are used to compose wall pieces and art cards, which are unique and primitively talismanic in feel, yet contemporary. With these pieces, Constance honors and celebrates the lives and deaths of the creatures whose bones, feathers and other parts contribute to her work.

 

It is her deepest hope that her work will evoke responses from deep within the psyche of the viewer, on a more instinctual level than that of the intellect. It is here that all life, human and non-human, share common ground and understanding – for on this level, all living beings are alike. If this depth is touched by her artwork, then she has achieved her goal, which is to make a connection which communicates something of her world to the viewer.