Icon VII Artwork

Canvas, gesso, marble paste, 24k gold leaf, Italian dark ochre, green earth, wax, ash and acrylic on board. “The role of the artist in any generation is to translate the imaginative consciousness of the world into works of art that punctuate civilization with enough beauty and meaning to move humanity forward. To that end, I am a mixed media artist seeking to describe the defiant beauty and spectral opulence of the human spirit through large, abstract wall sculptures made from torn canvas fragments saturated with gesso, layers of acrylic and oil paint, and 24 karat gold mounted on hand built pine frames. Moving outward from the center with one canvas fragment at a time, I build windblown spirals that seek to represent what the disembodied energy of an icon might look like if it stood outside its skin. My work presents with almost Baroque decadence and theatricality. I gild either the contours of the sculpted canvas or around with 24 karat gold to symbolize divinity. In fact, I consider my artistic practice a kind of abstract iconography. Traditional iconographers, or “image writers” in Greek, created pictures that were meant to draw the viewer into what is sacred. My work aims to do the same but to take the message one step further: to invent a kind of iconography that speaks to a postmodern audience by acting as a mirror for the sacred, true self. An iconography that invites us to see greatness not in the faces and stories of others but in ourselves. An iconography that initiates the romance of potential.”

Mixed Media:3d Sculpting on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:48 W x 24 H x 6 D in

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