Good and Bad Series
Good and Bad SeriesThis series comes from my previous work as I've started combining action painting and collage. I'm using work from my first group of students back in 2015. The main artifact is work from their skits about good and bad behavior (which were hilarious). I know it may look like I just throw shit at the wall (sometimes I do), but I’m actually exploring systematic processes in terms of color composition and placement in order to create these pieces. I used their work, their words, images, and ideas to create collages I then used as a guide to place color. A lot of thought goes into gluing shit to a canvas then painting it, who knew.
These paintings are all about color, systems, and association. The placement of color and disbursement of color is systemic in nature as I have a preconceived revolving order of how color will be used as I work. I interchange between light and dark colors. Intentionally working my way around the color wheel in a triadic fashion.I am exploring the use of color to stratify, unify, and commodify. The use of color, in art, branding, on TV, and in psychology to dictate perception. The use of color to illicit mood. These are automatones process that lead to arbitrary results. Predetermined outcomes in my mind that simply require a hand. As a kid, I was addicted to Skittles and Arizona Mango drinks. Rainbow candy in general. I always have to try a new flavor. Basketball sneakers and Soccer cleat colorways, The old fanta commercials, ipod minis, companies play off of our personal association with color.What I look at frequently in my work, including this series, is how the facade of bright highly saturated colors is used to mask sincere intentions.When you look at these paintings I want you to think of good and bad. What do those words mean to you? We introduce them very early on into a humans vocabulary. How do you associate with color? Why do you think that is. As human beings we learn through experiences.. How color is used in our lives is essential to how we perceive. There is universal truth to that, but also a personal side to our relation to color no one can understand outside ourselves.
These paintings are all about color, systems, and association. The placement of color and disbursement of color is systemic in nature as I have a preconceived revolving order of how color will be used as I work. I interchange between light and dark colors. Intentionally working my way around the color wheel in a triadic fashion.I am exploring the use of color to stratify, unify, and commodify. The use of color, in art, branding, on TV, and in psychology to dictate perception. The use of color to illicit mood. These are automatones process that lead to arbitrary results. Predetermined outcomes in my mind that simply require a hand. As a kid, I was addicted to Skittles and Arizona Mango drinks. Rainbow candy in general. I always have to try a new flavor. Basketball sneakers and Soccer cleat colorways, The old fanta commercials, ipod minis, companies play off of our personal association with color.What I look at frequently in my work, including this series, is how the facade of bright highly saturated colors is used to mask sincere intentions.When you look at these paintings I want you to think of good and bad. What do those words mean to you? We introduce them very early on into a humans vocabulary. How do you associate with color? Why do you think that is. As human beings we learn through experiences.. How color is used in our lives is essential to how we perceive. There is universal truth to that, but also a personal side to our relation to color no one can understand outside ourselves.