Artist Statement
My most import mentor, Philip Guston, said to me, “You really like creating abstract forms and figures! For you, this is your abundant source!” He was right. This stuck.
I paint and draw three-dimensional abstractions, i.e., "Referential Representations.” My Art is reality abstracted, actual and emotionally imagined. My paintings and drawings are efforts to communicate meaning and substance through universal language. Faithful to our physical existence, the goal of my Art is to depict authentic intellectual and emotional response to my daily existence.
My Art has become independent of anything except self reference. When younger I sourced from art works I admire. My knowledge of Art History is encyclopedic, which had once been distractive to my goal as Artist. No longer. This mode of misconduct is over. I accept the wisdom of Guston and other modern artistic giants, yet no longer depend upon them. Today I paint like a child. My work is self-investigatory. Art History in no longer a problem. I am the problem.
Working for years has made me accept that which is possible. That which is possible is indicative of myself. I listened to Philip Guston’s astute observation of my art. I have found personal, self-truth through Art Making. Abstracting visual truth from visual reality is self- informative. Three-dimensional abstraction is my means. My Art is "Referential Representation,” or “Abstract Representation.” It represents my intellectual and emotional reality.
I create paintings and drawings to investigate, become true here and now. This journey is never ending; absolute truth is never realized. Truth finding is research; it is idea testing; it is an endless. Step by step I uncover daily and universal realities. Reality is an abundance, filled with abstractions, full of perspective possibilities. To make sense, I construct my worldview through an active exercise of my imagination. My work is meditative, philosophical. I actively resist standardized intelligence.
Imagination is not equivalent to consciousness, nor is reality equivalent to the world as it exists outside our minds. Reality is an activity; it is not dry, not philosophically pure, not static. Reality is passionate engagement in search for order and meaning.
Reality is an abstraction, and so are my paintings and drawings; they are my search for revelation. My art is a collection of moments, a personal diary. My artworks are a catalogue of my endeavors, a record of my incessant movement toward clearer understanding of existence. My fondest hope is I connect with you, my viewer, though my art work. We are here together. In this world we are intertwined with one another, children of the events within it.
I paint and draw three-dimensional abstractions, i.e., "Referential Representations.” My Art is reality abstracted, actual and emotionally imagined. My paintings and drawings are efforts to communicate meaning and substance through universal language. Faithful to our physical existence, the goal of my Art is to depict authentic intellectual and emotional response to my daily existence.
My Art has become independent of anything except self reference. When younger I sourced from art works I admire. My knowledge of Art History is encyclopedic, which had once been distractive to my goal as Artist. No longer. This mode of misconduct is over. I accept the wisdom of Guston and other modern artistic giants, yet no longer depend upon them. Today I paint like a child. My work is self-investigatory. Art History in no longer a problem. I am the problem.
Working for years has made me accept that which is possible. That which is possible is indicative of myself. I listened to Philip Guston’s astute observation of my art. I have found personal, self-truth through Art Making. Abstracting visual truth from visual reality is self- informative. Three-dimensional abstraction is my means. My Art is "Referential Representation,” or “Abstract Representation.” It represents my intellectual and emotional reality.
I create paintings and drawings to investigate, become true here and now. This journey is never ending; absolute truth is never realized. Truth finding is research; it is idea testing; it is an endless. Step by step I uncover daily and universal realities. Reality is an abundance, filled with abstractions, full of perspective possibilities. To make sense, I construct my worldview through an active exercise of my imagination. My work is meditative, philosophical. I actively resist standardized intelligence.
Imagination is not equivalent to consciousness, nor is reality equivalent to the world as it exists outside our minds. Reality is an activity; it is not dry, not philosophically pure, not static. Reality is passionate engagement in search for order and meaning.
Reality is an abstraction, and so are my paintings and drawings; they are my search for revelation. My art is a collection of moments, a personal diary. My artworks are a catalogue of my endeavors, a record of my incessant movement toward clearer understanding of existence. My fondest hope is I connect with you, my viewer, though my art work. We are here together. In this world we are intertwined with one another, children of the events within it.