I first needed to know whether one conceives a work in total prior to undertaking the process or whether one "finds" the work during the process with no idea in the beginning of where things will go. We all are both at times but we are all also one or the other. I am the latter, finding work and refining direction as I go.
As an ABSTRACT PAINTER using OILS on STRETCHED CANVAS and PAPER the importance of CONCEPT has gained position gradually in my practice. For me Meaning in the Labor and Process of what one does predisposes any position the subject might enlighten on its journey toward object. Mine is a gestural abstraction based thoroughly in nature and ultimately in the nature of things and how painting them gains meaning culturally in a developing practice.
I am in a continual process that strives to resist striving and making, and at the same time I am defined by what I strive for and make. This is not cute but more often than not, impossible. All I can hope for is that on those days when everything is working..... that what I leave behind as completed work pushes the edges of what we understand as possible for art.
As an ABSTRACT PAINTER using OILS on STRETCHED CANVAS and PAPER the importance of CONCEPT has gained position gradually in my practice. For me Meaning in the Labor and Process of what one does predisposes any position the subject might enlighten on its journey toward object. Mine is a gestural abstraction based thoroughly in nature and ultimately in the nature of things and how painting them gains meaning culturally in a developing practice.
I am in a continual process that strives to resist striving and making, and at the same time I am defined by what I strive for and make. This is not cute but more often than not, impossible. All I can hope for is that on those days when everything is working..... that what I leave behind as completed work pushes the edges of what we understand as possible for art.
