The “Flux” series is catered towards a designer aesthetic with a more muted color palette compared to the usual vibrant series. Also incorporating metallic paints into the work, the various meanings of flux are represented within each piece as well as throughout the entire series.

Flux

Adaptation is a series with the challenge of not allowing the form to reach the outer edges of the canvas. Part of the Materialize show where the forms from the paintings meet the three-dimensional sculpture forms.

Adaptation

Circulate- V. 

The ideas of circulation and flow, and how these words are used to describe my creative process, have become integral to my artistic practice. This circulation of energy -whether positive or negative-  in response to our daily lives and the circumstances of our current political and social climate affects each of us. My work, by its nature, is fueled by this energy via my emotional and physical state, and the process of creating is like a rediscovery of who I am at each moment I come to the canvas.  This dialogue between art, artist and audience creates a narrative, that flow is continuous.

It circulates.

Circulate

This collection is part of the Festival International Musician Series which combines the flowing brushwork from my original abstracts with more representational figures. The integration of the brushwork with the figures, as well as the vibrant color palette, creates an energy that is specific to this music festival. I was the Official Visual Artist for the 2022 Festival International de Louisiane.

Musician Series

Continuing the floating figure within the canvas, this series was created with the intention of having a limited palette. These versus my more energetic work, resemble a serene moment in time.

Meandering

Continuation of the series, focusing on solid color fields to balance with the busy brushstrokes.

Conversion

The Innate series was created with the intention of combining vibrant colors with various application techniques.

Innate Series

The Faded series was influenced directly to Van Gogh's "Irises". Part of a traveling exhibit to the Houston Museum of Fine Art, there were over 50 works by the master who is one of the most influential artists to me. To my surprise, the irises were actually purple, but the red had faded over time.

Faded

Surface was a collaboration piece involving my large scale painting, body painting, and choreographed dance. The performance originated from a dancer being blended into one of my paintings, which she then emerged and danced in correlation with my brushstrokes. The project went much further and became part of a ticketed theater event that ran for three separate nights.

Influenced by the variety of surfaces which we often paint on and wear, the painting and performance focused around where we locate one's "humanness". The painting color palette and composition was created while the choreography was being produced, heavily influenced by the 7 dancers that were in the company.

Dirk Guidry