My practice investigates the roll of contemporary painting and printmaking from the point of view that it is a radical act to gain the viewers attention, and hold it for as long as possible in an image-saturated culture. I am interested in fracturing the viewing experience by collapsing visual patterns and rhythms that arise in the work during its construction. When things aren’t conforming to instinctive visual assumption, when it just doesn’t feel right, then you are compelled to engage with the work.
By bringing together the languages of visual communication from the fields of art history, illustration and contemporary advertising media, I aim to arrive at a place within each work where it becomes its own distinct fact.
Stylistic inconsistencies are deliberately engaged in order to provide an opportunity for intense examination of the tensions that arise where varying modes of communication meet, thus extending the duration of initial impression. Development of affecting tensions arise through the interplay between spontaneity and calculated development, loose gestures and rigid form, fore-ground and back-ground, an interplay between positive and negative space, planes of colour and tone jostle for attention, of stillness and speed, and of noise and silence.
By undertaking an emergent approach to make the work, manipulating the painted and printed surface until the materials do something I have not seen before, the finished work will represent an unanticipated outcome. Works are developed separately, following an individual visual logic.
The use of printmaking processes engages ideas of reproduction, repetition, procedure, and the constructed image. It also allows the pace of the project to slow, without losing any of the spontaneous, gestural and vigorous. Printmaking also instills preparedness for ‘failure’ at every step, an attitude I adapt to my painting practice, because it enables bolder risk taking and increases the opportunity for the occurrence of unforeseen outcomes.
Buying Committee;
Gretchen
Katy
Bryce
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