Lewis Achenbach Founder Jazz Occurrence

"I relish fluency in making a mark, pure and very simple, layered over with this contained chaos; does the beauty still show through the dark matter and bring forth these pockets of memory?"

Lewis Achenbach : Unfine Artist
We are to say, a piece is not finished until it deteriorates into nothing; compost. Art has a self life and we should aggrandize a work's demise. Working through the ugly to recognize the beauty. The glass Duchamp. The crevices on an aged oil painting. Transcripts fall apart in release. A tale retold until it becomes another story; your story. Icons repeated until you identify and the work can move on. Above yet another idiosyncratic couch. The poignancy is, hopefully, in the receivers' moment with the work, that is taken with, to another piece.

The act of painting is a dialogue that I have with the surface; a call and response. The process is facilitating the work to unfold into it's proper form. It starts as a solid automatic writing pocket of actuality. A memory, a channeled expulsion, a tug at purity and singularity. Currently, I try "˜not' to paint in a representational way. Attempting to harness an essence of (non) subject. The high challenge is to maintain the honesty of the initial mark-making, as...

NYU, BFA Film/Animation

Jazz Occurrence Art Exhibition 1-4
Fulton Street Collective
Walk In Art Center JazzO Exhibition
Bushwick Artillery 2012