Intransigence
“INPUT” OIL ON CANVAS 16″ X 16″ 2008
The place in which I live doesn’t so much deliver content for my work, rather the place and it’s “content” seeps in. The people, the environment are a finely tuned and sensitive system that digs it’s heels in and resists change. I was just doing some dumb painting studies of rocks, trying to simplify things as much as possible - But in looking at the work and discussing it with visitors I sense this new series of paintings of rocks is about the subtle and unseen shifts that occur in people, institutions and place as a result of this intransigence. Resistance is often a symptom of the change being in fact much more radical and deep than it appears. Putting fuel into and providing an exhaust pipe for an inert object seems a futile endeavor….. yet something went into forming that rock, and it will eventually transform into some other solid, gas or liquid.
“OUTPUT” OIL ON CANVAS 16″ X 16″ 2008
Wow, Marc, I need to visit more often. You’ve been doing a lot of painting, all really interesting work. Visceral, raw, expressive painting. “Input” and “Output” are wonderful, with a combination of clunky, cartoony humor and mystical transcendence.
Really like the abstract pieces and the “islands” too…hardly potboilers.
Comment by Don Gray — June 19, 2008 @ 11:59 pm