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Artist Statement I view art as anything that impacts or makes an impression on the subconscious self. As an artist I am attracted to using non-objective means to portray the connections and paradoxes that occur within the human psyche. My method is to explore my intuitive responses to color, line, shape, value, movement, balance, emphasis, rhythm, and unity. I approach each blank canvas with a question and, through the phsyical act of painting, begin to initiate a dialogue between myself, as artist, and my audience, the observer. I want my pieces to be a mirror for the observer, reflecting back his own passion and emotional experience. The conceptual intent of my studio pieces has been heavily influenced by surrealist writers like Andre Breton. My visual and technical inspiration is informed by the New York and German abstract expressionists, Pollock, De Kooning, and Richter; the Austrian conceptualist, Klimt; and the surrealists, Dali and Duchamp. The greatest influence on my abstraction process is Picasso, particularly the decomposition of the human figure into simple, geometric forms. I am interested in the relationship between science and spirituality, particularly in the fields of quantum mechanics and special relativity. Independent study in these areas have informed my existentialist ideas on the nature of reality that drive the majority of my non-objective pieces. It is through the process of painting that I become aware of the meaning behind the intuitive choices that compose my works. For me artmaking is the best way to explore what it is to be human. |
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