Education |
 2000
Comprehensive encaustics workshop,R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY 1984
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
Affiliation |
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The Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY |
Artist Statement |
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Working primarily in oil-based paints and glazes with a variety of application techniques, my large gestural abstract paintings embrace both process and image equally on the same level. In my artwork, and throughout my entire interactive painting process, the movement of spontaneity creates an action and personal intuition creates a reaction. My paintings follow the development of visualized thought with the climax being the actualization of a particular idea. Thoughts and ideas influenced by family, personal experience, history, music, recent and current social climates all occupy prominent places on this vast playing field.
I begin a painting with some basic reactive gestures to a thought-not unlike notations a journalist jots down in his notebook, or improvised notes a musician might play-then let the emerging image rest. Through methods of gestural drawing, layering, glazing, scraping and scratching the paint surface, I create dynamic contrasts between opposites such as addition and elimination, surface and depth, structure and fragmentation. These dichotomies in the creative process reside at the very core of our own human evolution and spiritual growth. The painting is a living phenomenon; communication and interaction with the image occurs exhaustively throughout. Because of the long drying time of oil paints, I am able to come back to work and rework the integral depths of surface and image until a thought concept is resolved. The resulting work creates a visceral experience with the viewer: a soulful encounter with color, surface texture, dimensionality and the ultimate expressive nature of paint. |
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