I refer to the whole of the Anne Plumb Paintings as "The Romance Quest" this is a literary phrase for what was popularized as the Heroes Journey. This is a psycological picture of the mind, I understand, searching for an Idea.
The paintings I made in the 1980’s still hold interest for me and there is a large representation of them here in my slides.
It was a time of bringing abstraction and figuration together. Older ideas of the figure were replaced by newer, and now maybe questionable theoretic appropriation.
It was a fertile time and many of the ideas concerning abstraction were created that are still in use today such as juxtaposition and overlay.
I found I could paint the figurative landscape as a metaphor for interior more abstract feelings. Pollock and Ryder were the an inspiration.
They were all large paintings often 10 feet in one direction. I used oil paint and a black and white palette was the most direct expression of what I was after.
I had my first show in NYC at the Anne Plumb Gallery, in Soho. These early paintings and my career were successful. I won an award at the American Academy for a younger painter.
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