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It's not about making art that is either ugly or beautiful but about creating something existing in-between the two. Something not blatantly beautiful or ugly as a whole but containing aspects of both. grounding the work in reality. which is crucial due to the numerous elements comprising the collage-painting (combine, if you will-thank you Rauschenberg-) that come straight out of day to day life, random objects found on the ground, scraps of cloth or canvas discarded. handmade paper given me as a gift from my peers. old t-shirts...anything. These works end up being rooted in the very place and culture they are produced in. in my everyday world. a relic of our consumerist/ throw-away society.
influences: Rauschenberg, Clayton brothers, Barry McGee...Helen Frankenthaler. German abstract expressionists circa 100 years ago. 50's painters. Dada. Braque. van Gogh's application of paint, the thickness of it. those 100 white books with bullet holes in the Guggenheim a year ago...dirt. the sidewalks I ever walk on. fearlessness. lack of preciousness about art.
influences: Rauschenberg, Clayton brothers, Barry McGee...Helen Frankenthaler. German abstract expressionists circa 100 years ago. 50's painters. Dada. Braque. van Gogh's application of paint, the thickness of it. those 100 white books with bullet holes in the Guggenheim a year ago...dirt. the sidewalks I ever walk on. fearlessness. lack of preciousness about art.