Self-directed Project Proposal
During the course of this class, I’ve become increasingly
interested in the middle ground of painting between high representation and
pure abstraction. I find the idea of freeing colour, pattern, or texture from
the form very liberating, but I still enjoy recognizable (if ambiguous) forms
in a painting. I’d like to try to create a figurative painting using an
additive and subtractive approach (visual weight) in the same lines of Philip
Guston. I would also like to explore the use of gestural, active, expressive
marks to shape a figure and space that plays with the nature of the 2-D vs. 3-D
battle in a painting. The imagery will be based on a remembered pose and
environment (waiting in the reception area at my dental office for a check-up).
I have done a series of timed (10 drawings at 5 minutes each) from a few source
photographs to ingrain the form in my memory, but I will not paint from a
direct reference.
The three artists I wish to use as reference are:
Dana Schutz
Philip Guston
Willem DeKooning (1940s)
What I hope will result is a painting that features a figure
that encourages an ambiguous or fragmented narrative and an obvious visceral,
material response. In a way, this project will be a summation of what I’ve learned
in Art 211 and 212 and will point the way for me as I continue on in my own
work.
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