IT Jealousy 1 (Light)
2015
Digital Drawing
Output to any dimension
IT Jealousy 2 (Dark)
2015
Digital Drawing
Output to any dimension
IT Jealousy 3 (Grey)
2015
Digital Drawing
Output to any dimension
Pirouette 1 (Insecure Boss)
2015
Digital Drawing
Output to any dimension
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4 Corners
2015
Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas
4 x 5 inches
4 Karin
2015
Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas
4 x 5 inches
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January 28 - February 28, 2015
Statement
The work included in my latest “Banner Year” solo exhibition revisits painting in ways informed by my earlier cinematic experiments and more recent video projects. I planned for the undulating forms in these paintings to carry and signify the structure of speech – or more specifically film dialogue – as well as the language of painting itself as a visual medium. These scripted language motifs are also employed as Institutional Critique strategies: the challenge to uphold the first principles and slogans we generate by our everyday actions through new performances. Or even as a simple attempt to satisfy the responsibility painting owes the contemporary viewer
Returning to the study of Ed Ruscha’s blank signs and bleached-out text block paintings, I developed this new work to explore the dichotomy of pervasive marketing catchphrases camouflaging as motivational phrases. Larger panels and canvases drop text in favour of free visual movement as divulgence. Waveforms demarcate baroque structures advancing in all over directions, advancing the modern notion of the brush stroke as signifier of text/speech actions. Over scorched and spray-painted surfaces, visual sentences are carved out to offer an optimistic, new narrative for painting inspired by digital motion.
I spent a great deal of time in my studio reflecting on the practices and words of individuals who remain important to my artistic progressions. Nevertheless, I hope to have formed new justifications for the highly archival medium of painting by generating new fusions with the fleeting cinematic language and discipline of filmmaking n the light of emergent technologies
