The Arts Center Exhibitions:
Artist's Statement, 'Portals,' Winter Show & Silent Auction, 2011:
"Caught between emerging and disappearing. This is a non-place. A space with no time.
Neither here nor there, but a transition.
Possibility.
A doorway, pathway, entry to another
Place. An interstice. Waiting, hovering.
Paintings are portals; mediating between the viewer and an imaginary, timeless space. A space to enter and explore, contemplate and wander."
Icibe, 36" x 36", oil, acrylic on muslin, 2011.