Ricardo Morin

In my work, I make no reference to any specific art historical movement, nor to avant-garde moderniste agendas. I look at art in the making as the fleshy product of human experience. Yet, for me an image or object of art seeks not to explain what the meaning of the experience is; rather the image manifests the act itself to provoke an interpretation.

My recent works 2005-07 project a synthetic perspective of pictorial space manifesting infinity: Art allows us to transcend the material world of signs, and to reach for the infinite. Just as our own idiopathic nature is oblivious to causality, my aesthetic frame embraces all the senses with the image as its residue.

There are no preliminary sketches nor a preconceived notion of the final composition. In a gestural and intuitive fashion, I use the plane of the canvas or paper as an active platform onto which the drawing or painting medium is applied-- in variegated densities, layer after layer, transparent or textural--; the works transform through a gradual process of accruing.

As with my oil paintings, my drawings and watercolorsincluding recent digital paintings-- operate autonomously; however, they act within an accelerated framework as a counterpoint to the le...