Elemental series
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What is illusion and what is real?
This is the question that I struggle with in these paintings. I intend these works to be exercises exploring different ways to deal with formal issues of line, shape, space, value, texture, form, and color - hence the series' title, Elemental. The challenge is to do so, using naturalistically painted objects. My primary focus is on formal concerns in painting, but I use traditional trompe l’oeil painting techniques as my means to this end. I believe that there is no hierarchy of mark-making. A line drawn with charcoal isn’t more real than a line created with a painted string. I feel that they are symbolically equal because they are both removed from the purest mathematical definition of a line - that being a point moving through space with no width, only length. Beyond the ah-ha moment when you appreciate the illusion of these works, there lies an awareness of formal concerns and the hidden meaning behind the objects and shapes depicted in the work. |
Abstraction in Process
Oil on panel
24" x 24"
2000
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