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Mixed Media, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 4 W x 4 H x 1 D in
This process-oriented small painting uses the ideas of time and chance to blur the line between intent and coincidence. Joint compound is slathered on a panel and manipulated, creating a sculptural, composition-based surface. Thin acrylic pigments run and absorb into the still-wet surface, doing wild, independent things that have been gamed into existence over years of experimentation with the materials. After the paint and joint compound dry, additional layers of pigment and graphite respond to that which has gone before, as many or as few times as it takes. I listened to the Portland band Fox Academy while working on this piece, the plaintive, loping, reverb-layered song Perfect Shirt seemed a good signifier. I'm offering this piece here in print form, which replicates the work much larger than it is in real life.
Mixed Media:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:4 W x 4 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Making art has always been a compulsion, one in which I have found some facility. I knew that an 'artist' was who I was probably as early as age 4 or 5, though I didn't head back to school to complete my art degree until 2001. I prefer abstraction, though I draw inspiration primarily from atmospheric phenomena, oblique light, and empty landscapes. I take pleasure in the tension created between where I hope a painting will go and where it leads me. Systematic methods and rules form the backbone of my pieces. Materials go down mostly in a certain order, I keep my toolkit of media and my palette deliberately small. I like how these constraints force the dialog between the marks and my intent to remain focused. Though my intent is deliberate, the elements of composition that result always suggest new directions I may follow, retreat from, and revisit. But pure composition needs an emotional component. As I work I’m exploring what it means to suffer in life, to have a broken childhood, to struggle with addiction and self-doubt. Like many artists, I make music foundational to my practice. The rhythms and moods influence the marks I make as much as a thunderstorm or cirrus cloud. You’ll often find a song title or snippet of a lyric suffices as the name of one of my pieces.
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