“Space-stacking”

… an archaic visual metaphor as my personal vision

Here’s my thesis: The primitive tilting-up of the ground plane forces an artificial “space-stacking” that is very different from vanishing-point perspective and layered space. It allows for surface arrangements of abstracted shapes that have intuitive correspondences.

Most of my art journey has not been about developing a style as such but chasing an ideal. The ideal has been slippery, so I have explored different techniques and solutions. Rendering realism has not been a goal since early in my art journey. But the space-stacking arrangement threads through my most serious work.

I believe abstract art is invented. As such, it is always personal – the opposite of plein air – no matter how austere, whether it’s Barnett Newman, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Victor Vasarely, Robert Ryman, Ben Nicholson, Brice Marden, Bridget Riley, etc. My recent work can appear representational, abstracted, or even non-objective, but it is still a clean-sheet composition of drawn, fictive objects in invented arrangements in stacked space.

There are currently 300+ images on my website, 144+ in the Iowa City Paintings series.

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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” “The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.”

* Both quotes are from the writings of author George Sand.

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