Associate Professor of Art, Painting
333 Fine Arts Center // x3831 // angela.battle@drake.edu
BFA in Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1980.
BS in Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1996.
MFA in Painting, University of New Mexico, 1999.
Battle is committed to the production and exhibition of artwork. She has exhibited locally, regionally and nationally.
The production of visual images is the process by which I communicate personal evolutions in knowledge and understanding of concepts related to the ecological relationship of human beings to the planet upon which they depend. Such evolution in thinking manifests itself in diverse series of extended and interdependent narrative often driven at the core by an interest in a specific facet of the natural sciences. Most recently, that science is meteorology and most specifically, a deepening study of cloud form and function. This fascination forms metaphorical drift for the empathic contemplation of what I see as the increasingly irreversible ecological impact of human goings on and does not exclude humanity in its wake.
Sky (begun winter, 2011) is a series of paintings that border imagery in gouache of atmospheric phenomena cropped out of newspaper photographs of global environmental and political paroxysms with images in acrylic that hypothesize cloud mass as landscape and approach abstraction.
Geography by Sky (begun summer, 2006) is an ongoing series composed of miniature cloud paintings in gouache on board. All were made in the field while traveling to and walking amidst newly encountered landscapes. As of this writing (summer, 2011) 138 of these nephological, documentary field paintings exist. Sites so recorded range from Iowa to the Lake District of England to the Pacific Coasts of California and Washington states.
