The following group of images is my most recent body of work. All of these paintings and drawings are based on memories or my daily experience. For now I’ll just include a version of one of my most recent artist’s statements. This is constantly being revised and tailored so any comments would be appreciated:
Our world and the spaces that we navigate call out for some type of transformation. Paintings are a logical outlet for such transformations. My paintings represent and present a painted universe. Paintings have the ability to describe deep atmospheric space as well as occupy a physical space with a variety of different surfaces and textures. I am interested in exploring these two attributes of painting simultaneously.
My personal experience and memory create a framework on which this painted world is created. A dialectic is therefore created between this painted world and our own. The initial composition is mapped out in reference to this memory or segment of my everyday reality. Once the forms and spatial elements are in place each one is developed or built up to create a degree of tension with the elements adjacent to it. Each element carries with it its own logic, its own language that creates a fractured conversation with its neighboring forms and spaces. The goal of each painting is to reach a balance of harmonious tension. The problem is how, and to what degree do these painting languages describe a pictorial space as well as relate to each other on the surface of a painting. On what level do these abstract languages relate to our reality? Is it through pictorial special reference? Is it through loose or tight depiction of some realistic form?
I would like to provide the viewer with a space that he or she can navigate and search for the harmony between seemingly dissident forms and spaces. The viewer will be able to feel the presence of the painting through its relation to their own body and their physical relationship to the painting, as well as experience the painting as a picture that tells the story of a world.
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That is some sweet artwork!
Steve,Yeah! Great work and very cool artists statement. Well I might be alittle prejudiced. Much Love Mom Lisa
Stephen, I love this stuff. Be sure to let me know when there’s a showing I can make a trip to NYC for.
I’m still waiting for a show in Houston…I think work is wicked cool! Take that as you will coming from an engineer…
Just sitting here looking at your work for the first time. Although i have seen some of your work before in person i still appreciated it the second time around. all of the new stuff is exciting. I like to see the progress that your making and some time if you could explain why you thought that the mural in your studio was a dead end.
Who are you number 3? I have tried emailng you, but the message has faild to go through. I have taken your advice and updated “Walls and Bridges.”