Elizabeth Onorato: Some Days in March: New Drawing

Elizabeth Onorato records the experience of the day in four-inch squares of color, movement, and line. In this way, she creates a string of visible moments throughout one season, then on through the next-filling several books each year.

The components of her visual language owe something to both the input of her physics studies and the influence of her ever-developing urban garden. It is a language informed by a ongoing history of drawing that has been growing for at least two hundred years-from the lyrical use of color by William Blake, to the automatic drawing experiments of the Surrealists or the gestural mark making of the Abstract Expressionists, to the more current efforts of artists to create a wordless, objectless, pictorial, expressive form.

Each page in these journals is a personal, freely-controlled exercise. Each image is a narrative of passing time and developing thought: a visual memory of the effects of the day (both the internal and external occurrences)-- expressive both of mood and weather.

Elizabeth Onorato has completed more than fifteen journals since 2009. This book is a sequential reformatting of a journal from March 2011.

Elizabeth Onorato lives in Jersey City, NJ.