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Modernism is Dead
43" x 89"
pigmented ink on canvas on aluminium
2007
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Artist
Statement
The explosive colors and decorative patterns in my work are intended to beautify ugliness and yet dangle on the edge of that which is not beautiful. For me the color is best when it is outrageously lurid, overindulgent, and oversaturated. The cinematic dimensions of these paintings unravel a simultaneity of events similar to the compression of time, space, and narrative depicted in renaissance tapestries. I respond to the humanism in the narratives of the renaissance works and so I’m imagining that the hunting and battle scenes of this era as predictors of the pattern of global disharmonies unfolding today. The weaving of the formal pattern in the image causes new patterns to emerge. The domesticity and the triviality of the pattern mixed with the underlying violence of the narrative are intended to suggest that something sinister lurks here. Animals play a role, as observers of the cruelty or by virtue of patterns of training by their human masters, become active participants in that cruelty. The use of pixilated, low-resolution images combined with an interruption of pattern causes a type of fragmentation in the scenes suggesting instability and how our place in this world is tenuous at best.
Contact
kolsen_dunn@yahoo.com
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