“I like the ones I don’t understand”.
Gerard Richter.
Easy for him to say. I like the ones where the tension between Pattern and Surprise causes Optical Adhesion.
The tension is what I’m looking for.
When I first started looking, I was looking at my father’s paintings, and I could see his thinking made manifest – they were deeply personal “a revelation of the self to the self” as Seamus Heaney said of poetry. Then I looked at Bonnard, and Persian miniatures, and truck signage and laundry detergent packaging, Krazy Kat and Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell and Phillip Guston, then I looked at Anni Albers and Tomma Abts and more Tomma Abts.
My paintings are an aspect of my thought, long-considered, looking for the tension, looking for release, loaded with memory.
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