New Figurative Sculptor Joyce DiBona Now At Mark White Fine Art

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New sculptor now showing at Mark White Fine Art.

Joyce DiBona has spent her artistic career pondering two ideas: vanity and mystery. At first they seem like opposing concepts— one is about exteriors, and the other involves things that are buried deep. As DiBona has discovered through her sculptures, now on show at Mark White Fine Art and Mark White Contemporary, surfaces can say a lot about what's underneath. The proof is in the ink.

DiBona was born in Ohio, attended Kent State University in the 1970s and eventually moved to Austin, TX where she's lived for many years. She's an abstract and figurative painter, but she's best known for her mixed media sculptures of animals and tattooed female nudes.

“When I first started doing this, I thought I wouldn't have to talk about the work. 'The work speaks for itself,'” DiBona says. Her figures certainly seem to be making bold statements. “Twisted” casts a direct glare over one shoulder, her right palm gushing blood from a fresh stigma. “Reconciliation” reaches one hand to the sky, the word “BELIEVE” crawling up her forearm.

“I figure I spent the first half of (life) exploring aspects of the vanity, while the mysterious tagged along,” Joyce says. “Now I can explore mystery, or what's left of it.”

As the artist came to this realization, her earlier philosophy on staying quiet about her work reversed. “As I did talk about it, it helped me grow and kept me focused enough to point to that which normally can't be named,” she says. Though their skin is covered in clear, striking words, symbols and patterns, in their postures and expressions Joyce's figures refer to something that's much harder to label.

“I hope to point to another way of being conscious in the world, another way that can alter the course of the world,” she says. “There's a way not to be subject to the petty desires that human beings have. It's a freer, more wide-open world.” The statement hardly speaks to vanity at all, though the artist's old friend mystery is still present. Joyce may have started on the surface, but when she dared to dig deeper, she uncovered infinite beauty.

Mixed media sculptures of Joyce DiBona can now be viewed at Mark White Fine Art or Mark White Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM. Charles Veilleux can be reached at (505) 982-2073 for more information.

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