GOOD AN
DBAD
Artist note:
This series is a combination of two of my favorite ways to work; action painting and collage. I am using work from some of my first classes when I started teaching. The main artifact is work from these skits we did my first year about good and bad behavior.
I used their work, their words, their images, and their ideas to create collages that I then used as a guide to place color.
I know it may look like I just throw shit at the wall, sometimes I do, but these are an exploration of rigid processes and predetermined outcomes. I worked on all six of them as if they were a single piece.
These paintings are all about color, systems, and how we relate to shit. The illusion of objectivity. The placement of color and disbursement of color is systemic in nature as I have a preconceived order of which color will be used and where. I interchange between light and dark colors; intentionally working my way around the color wheel. Using one color across all 6 canvas before I moved on to the next.
These are automatonic process that lead to arbitrary results. Predetermined outcomes in my mind that simply require a hand.
I am exploring the use of color to stratify, unify, categorize, and commodify. How color is used; in art, advertising, any visual media really, to incite a feeling.
As a kid, I was addicted to Skittles, Arizona Mango drinks, any rainbow candy, starburst, gummi bears, sour patch kids, whatever. I always had to try the new flavor. Basketball sneakers and Soccer cleats, Fantas, waterice, ipod minis, I am sucker for a color and variety. A flavor, a character, a team, a nation, a season, ourselves, we associate all sorts of things with certain colors. What I look at frequently in my work, including this series, is how the facade of bright highly saturated colors is used to mask insincere intentions.
When you look at these paintings I want you to think of your own preferences and values. How do you associate with color? Why do you think that is? As human beings our experiences shape how we see the world. There is a universal truth to color, but also a personal side in our relation to color no one can understand outside ourselves. How color is used in our lives is essential to how we perceive life.
I guess that's a good thing?
