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BIOGRAPHY

In her latest body of work, New Jersey artist Angie Mason explores the concept of home. As a child Angie was uprooted often, growing up all over New Jersey, living in Peurto Rico, Florida, and other places. She found solace & comfort in a self made home that she created by using her imagination. The characters, monsters, and landscapes that existed in her dreams now populate her paintings. The artist states, “The characters and worlds are both horrific and humorous, yet speak of what it is like to be human.”

In House Broken, Angie delves into all aspects of the home. Safety, love, warmth, damage, rebuilding, fear, and personal storms are all explored. Personal childhood experiences in her own broken home have lead her to find comfort in the world that she has created & presents to us through her paintings.

Currently, Angie is living in a spooky old house in Northern, New Jersey with her husband Lyle, and their very bad kitty Mr. Nervil NerverBurger. Her work has been exhibited across the United States in such places as Los Angeles, New York City, Minneapolis and New Jersey. You can be sure to find Angie and her cat in her studio making mischief, painting, drawing or simply just daydreaming.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The idea of home is within all of us, be it the home we long for or the home we yearn to escape. Regardless of our individual experiences, each of us journeys through life to discover the safety, love and warmth that a true home provides. Inevitably we face our own personal fears and struggles along the way, becoming damaged in the process but loss and pain occasionally must be the material from which we build.

A true home is found within oneself. Our memories, feelings, and experiences are the inhabitants of ourselves, dwelling within us to provide the comfort we seek. In life we must learn how to consturct our home so that we may comforatbly live within ourselves.

Like any house, we endure our personal storms, and like any house, we become broken. But we can withstand even the most severe damage, perseveing against loss and pain time adn again by clinging to the comfort and love for our home.

I myself have come from a broken home, uprooted many times throughout my youth, no stranger to hardship and loss. Thought the journey was difficult, I have found my home. The dichotomy of Hous Broken is at once a struggle of confrontation as well as a celebration of my homecoming.

Built and Broken through loss and pain, love and comfort, I have created this place for myself. I call it home.
I have been House Broken; I am House Broken.