The Pacific Coast issue of New American Paintings (#133) arrived in January, featuring three new paintings that are included in the Big House installation at Denk Gallery. Don’t ask me to autograph it for you, though!
Statement from “New American Paintings #133,” January 2018:
“The imagery I begin with typically confesses to a rite of passage, sexual awakening, or some other coming-of-age tale.
I call some of the recent work “gutter” paintings, which is a reference to the the gap between cells in a comic strip. These larger pieces are constructions of many small canvases clustered into a grid formation that may suggest a spatial, narrative, or symbolic meaning to the viewer.
Another group of paintings begins with similar source imagery, but differs from the “gutter” paintings in that the images are progressively superimposed on a single canvas.”
