Wendy Angel is a painter and new media artist.

Her work has been exhibited and published in various contexts and locations.

Biography

Wendy Angel was born on the central coast of California and spent her childhood on the west coast from Los Angeles to British Columbia. She graduated high school two years early and moved to New York. In the next decade she traveled, studied and resided in Europe, Israel and Hawaii periodically returning to the west coast to earn a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and to live in San Francisco. In 1989 Angel returned to Santa Cruz for an earthquake and a year program of graduate work in visual art. In the 1990's she continued studio work, engaged in artist collaborations, and periodically taught art in Hawaii, California and Israel. In the mid 1990's Angel became increasingly interested in digital forms and new media. This led to the completion of an MFA in New media Art at the Cadre Laboratory at San Jose State University. She has continues work in various media as well as paint, Ms. Angel also periodically teaches.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My works are compositions of visual elements in the way music is composition of sound.
My intent is that they be a sensual experience that affects the body/mind of the viewer.

Along with the obvious relationships indicated by titles and images, I consider conceptual context related to information and communication functions. For example, complexity is interesting, fuzziness makes things work and uncertainty contributes to cohesion.

A work of art is about life as it is lived and understood.

The work is about defining order amid chaos,
mingling sense with nonsense,
tackling material while grappling ideas.

The works are subjective expeditions in objective situations.
They are statements in an endless discourse.
They are moments on a world stage.

In general my work emerges from a synthesis of my experience and my understanding.

I incorporate multiple perspectives, methods and traditions. The work includes experimenting with possible options within set boundaries and analyzing how multiple elements function in a network of relationships. I engage with material to build formal and semiotic representation by immersing in an environment while experiencing the process of construction.

As artists and audience we explore and interpret ideas and information such as media, form, content, context, and meaning. I maintain that the physical and cognitive experiences provided by arts are keystones in the foundations of a sustainable and sane society. It is our challenge to enable art to enhance experience and comprehension in our moment.