Entering 2020, my artistic process
continues with my ongoing experimentation in the movement of line and
definition of shapes within the space of each of my compositions. I am moving in a direction where my
paintings have a more defined, crisp, clean and hard-edged structure to them.
I continue to study 3D objects of
all kinds, especially those from the mid-century modern building
architecture, which is
important as a comparative in assisting my work towards translating
multifaceted
objects and shapes into 2D. I am also studying art form from the
Suprematism art
movement, which Kazimir Malevich of Russia founded around 1913. This
type of
art focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines,
and
rectangles painted in a limited range of colors. I approach the idea of
each
new painting by doing some preliminary sketching. I also layout randomly
shaped paper cutouts or use tape to mask off areas of my workspace to
start my
composition and then build from there. I strive to create each piece so
that there
are both elements that seem to float on the canvas and ones, which seem
grounded as well by extending lines off the canvas and around the sides
in a
space where these lines are no longer visible. At some point in the
build of each
composition, I like to add a few weirdly placed skewed and
off-centered
lines, dashes, or shapes in and outside the design area in an attempt
to disconnect the flow. I especially enjoy any blank space within the
work, as
I feel it is in these isolated spaces and off-centered lines that have a
strangely exciting and enticing effect because these spaces can allow
for a moment of detaching and creating stillness, which creates a kind
of void in an area that allows a pause to breathe
before starting the movement once again.
My main medium is acrylic paint, and
occasionally I will add other mediums like oil pastels, spray paint, ink,
graphite, watercolor, gauche, or chalk pastel. Currently, I am mostly painting
my pictures on clear primed linen, which gives each composition a unique look
of simplicity along with a throwback-feel from the past of the 20th
century.
I enjoy a pace of painting that
creates clean and simple compositions as I feel this creates a balance in the
often messy and complicated times we live in.
