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"Apex or Blessing" |
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"Promise Garden" |
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"Poem 2" |
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"This House is Cold, But I Will Start a Fire" |
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"Unrequited" |
These paintings were made during a creative burst in 2009. I made around 60 or more similar paintings in a span of about three months. Each one was more complex and a learning experience. These are some of the early-mid period works from those three months.
I hadn't really painted much in the year and a half prior. I had graduated from college, applied to a couple of graduate schools, and was just working. I didn't get into grad school and ended up buying a comic book store. I felt a great need to make art again, so I began to paint. I wanted to do something new and challenging. I began to experiment with pure abstraction and heavy color use, both of which were new to me.
These paintings made me think about color, shape, and form in a new and more complex way. I put to use what I had learned in art school and in the process, I became a painter, not just someone who draws with paint. People have responded positively to this series and I worked on it for about a two years. Now, whenever I am in a spot, or need to clear my artistic mind, I will go back to working on a painting in this style to get me back on track.