grid paintings
on the grid paintings
These paintings are about desire, obsession, and commitment. The grids start with a life drawing of someone
I find beautiful; ideally, someone I see in passing. I also use whatever conversation is in the air around me
as the painting's title. I work out the drawing and use a cartoon to transfer it to canvas. Then I paint the en-
tire painting in one sitting.This process frees me to use paint in a fluid and expressive manner since I do not have to concentrate on color,
subject, or composition while I am painting. What apprears as static repetition reveals its variation upon clo-
ser inspection. Instead of using the grid to develop a singular version of a subject, I produce multiple versions
of the same image - and a truer overall portrait.Making these paintings is a meditation on the ideal orgainized by my subjectivity, stuctured by my gaze. The commit-
ment to making the same image over again is an expression of obsessive devotion to that ideal and each square of the
painting is an attempt to capture the beauty of the subject.They are devotional objects made for someone I do not know.
