"The Best of Intentions" Group exhibit

Opening
July 22nd, Thursday 6-9pm

Show run from July 20th - Aug. 14th 2010

Vici Quod Locus will be in this show.


Ceres Gallery
547th West 27th Street
Suite 201, 2nd Floor
New York NY 10001

(212) 947-6100

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat noon - 6pm

New Painting

"Vici Quod Locus"
Oil on Canvas
36" x 48"

The intention of my work is for the viewer to go beyond everyday thoughts and feelings. My work isn’t about making someone feel happy or sad; rather it’s about looking into the source of the self. My work is a process, a continuum, a single extended thought. For me, art is a reflection of life - a reflection of self. I look toward recognition of life as being ongoing and continuous, striving for a connection between the physical and the spiritual.

Vici Quod Locus is Latin for time and space. Using this ancient language is a connection between the ancient times and today thus assisting its existence. I begin the painting by placing lines and shapes on the canvas. Some of these markings eventually disappear or become more prevalent as I continue to work. The glazes set up an element of chance. Some of the thin glazes are disbanded to individual specs of pigment, when multi layers of different colors are laid, new colors are formed.

Existing upon an atmospheric surface, some of the markings that were once void of emotion are now charged with energy. By retaining an element of chance and chaos by juxtaposing hard lines against an atmospheric surface, I create an aesthetic form over a natural form. The two co-exist on the same surface yet defy any planar standard. This contradiction creates a complimentary environment, never allowing one to dominate over the other.

“The difficulty for abstract art today is to sustain the sense of spiritual stimmung in the face of a society that assimilates abstract art as simply another kind of communication and so makes us insensitive and unresponsive to it. As (Meyer) Shapiro wrote, experiencing art as well as creating it involves ‘a process ultimately opposed to communication as it is understood now.’ Authentically, spiritual abstract art does not so much ‘communicate’ as ‘induce an attitude of communion and contemplation.’”
The Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890-1985 p.314