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E. TILLY STRAUSS
amenia, New York - United States



Original Artworks (9)

E. Tilly Strauss; World On Back Of Turtle, 2013, Original Mixed Media, 9 x 9 inches. Artwork description: 241   turtle, mythology, myth, world, earth, celestial, story, surrealism   ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2013
9 x 9 inches (22.9 x 22.9 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Death Of A Marriage, 2011, Original Mixed Media, 10 x 8 inches. Artwork description: 241   chicken, hen, nest, egg, rooster, cows, sow, bathtub, bath, skeleton, poetry, colorful, bird, relationships, romance, surrealism  ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2011
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; The Visitation, 2010, Original Mixed Media, 10 x 8 inches. Artwork description: 241  chicken, hen, nest, egg, rooster, poetry, colorful, bird, bed, interior, relationships, romance, ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2010
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Hen Antiqued, 2009, Original Mixed Media, 10 x 8 inches. Artwork description: 241  chicken, hen, nest, egg, earthy colors, bird, farm, rural, mother, ...
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Original Mixed Media, 2009
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Issues, Naked Chicken Large, 2009, Original Painting Acrylic, 10 x 12.5 inches. Artwork description: 241  This is a larger version of a smaller piece. Painted on a wood panel- framed in an ornate gold frame, Some collage text in the background surface. Inspiration came from a repeated dream. Ever feel like you were naked in a clothed world? ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2009
10 x 12.5 inches (25.4 x 31.8 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Two Absolutes, Rooster And Hen, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 15 x 12 inches. Artwork description: 241  This panel is painted on wood and inside each of the birds as feathers texture a surface, are words on paper, forever and never. ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
15 x 12 inches (38.1 x 30.5 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Desire, Hen Floating Acro..., 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 11 x 5 inches. Artwork description: 241  A panel of wood painted with collage letters. . .Lively colors understate a languid mood of one really lazy diva. ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
11 x 5 inches (27.9 x 12.7 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Issues, Naked Chicken, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 3 x 5 inches. Artwork description: 241  This is a small panel painting, acrylic with plastered texture. Have you ever felt like this? ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
3 x 5 inches (7.6 x 12.7 cm)
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E. Tilly Strauss; Charmer, Rooster Eyes, 2008, Original Painting Acrylic, 10 x 9 inches. Artwork description: 241  This portrait of a rooster is a witty confrontational image full of theater and life. The surface of the wood panel is plastered fro texture and there are inclusions of text from media headlines ...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2008
10 x 9 inches (25.4 x 22.9 cm)
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Artist Statement

I have been painting chickens for the last 20 years- beginning with the advertizing of our family’s poultry farm business thru the eventual move of my studio into the defunct slaughterhouse. Somehow chickens fall easily from my brush, leaving painstaking impressions of my psyche and chronicling retrospective concerns of my community- such as the source of food, the use of land, the clarity of love, the isolation of individuals. With the inclusion of text from headlines to personal lists, stories emerge and dissolve through the process of the painting. Layering in the push and pull of darks and lights, the paintings gel into a narratives of our anxious era, a larger tale of the moods of soul and season.

Because of the space and time I am afforded to work, much of my painting up to this has been intimate in dimension. I would like to enlarge the images to a much more confrontational scale. I recently moved out of the poultry slaughterhouse (because of ventilation needs) into a much larger barn. My goal is to further push the images so that they reflect the chicken as legend in our cultural mythology and account for my current truths.

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