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STATEMENT OF WORK
In my abstract paintings, I am investigating the convergence of a deepened craft and material investigation of the medium of oil painting. At the core of my practice is an ongoing practical and technical investigation of oil painting techniques both historical and contemporary. Through a practice of making both my own oil-paint and gesso from pure pigments and their raw components, I have managed to unlock a material perceptual visual operation, that induces an altered visual experience through radiant saturated color as contiguous with uncanny atmospheric depth. The quality of my abstract paintings ranges in quality from the sincere and severe to the light hearted and humorous, as I continually explore inter-relation of space, framing structures and the interplay of geometric and biomorphic shape. Through the of build of numerous transparent and translucent layers, the viewer is rewarded for their durational attention in which perceptions of color and space unfold over time.
Positioned within the lineage of abstract Field painting, I am pursuing a renewal of the dialogue through a re-assertion and adaptation of Baroque era transparent layering techniques within a compositional framework that resides firmly within the dialogue of contemporary abstraction. Out of this synthesis I believe emerges a unique position of contemporary field painting that links the lineage of virtual similitude of representation paradoxically within the material of presence of a present experience.
As a Chinese-Vietnamese Canadian artist who is now based in Berlin, my abstract paintings echos and honours the paradoxical nature of encountering the human physical presence that is intertwined with a inner horizons of personal history and possible futures. It is the connecting presence coupled with the humble awareness of the unseen depth of subjectivity that I value as an artist, and that which I am seek to infuse in my paintings. The complexities of subjectivity are hidden within the intensity of the connected presence of an encounter, and cannot be fully reduced to that of either history nor identity.