Jay Dean - Jiggy (Acrylic paint and gouache on canvas, 8” x 10”, 2017)
My process begins by using acrylics as a vehicle for drawing. While this process devotes most of its energy to investigating the internal relations of a picture, it can be described as a strategy of revision that stretches itself, curls up in a ball and unfurls again, reaching between its own formulation and negation. Dualities can be seen occurring between concealment and revelation, figuration and abstraction and between figure and ground. My paintings are direct negotiations between the formulated and the erased.
My process begins by using acrylics as a vehicle for drawing. While this process devotes most of its energy to investigating the internal relations of a picture, it can be described as a strategy of revision that stretches itself, curls up in a ball and unfurls again, reaching between its own formulation and negation. Dualities can be seen occurring between concealment and revelation, figuration and abstraction and between figure and ground. My paintings are direct negotiations between the formulated and the erased.
My process begins by using acrylics as a vehicle for drawing. While this process devotes most of its energy to investigating the internal relations of a picture, it can be described as a strategy of revision that stretches itself, curls up in a ball and unfurls again, reaching between its own formulation and negation. Dualities can be seen occurring between concealment and revelation, figuration and abstraction and between figure and ground. My paintings are direct negotiations between the formulated and the erased.