Abstract Series (1980s-present). The series you see here grows out of my interest
in the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters, and references the work of such
photographers as Aaron Siskind, Carl Chiarenza and Helen Levitt, who, to my knowledge, was
the first artist to exploit the expressive value of graffiti in photographs
These images may also be understood as a form of abstract art--as visual
music, made up
of colors, rhythms, lines and shapes. And as is the case with
music--probably the most
abstract of all the arts--our emotional response to
non-representational imagery is first
and foremost unconscious and pre-verbal.
As Carl Chiarenza writes in his biography of
Aaron Siskind, "...a photograph is
not necessarily a means of transporting a viewer to an
event, place or thing; it
can be a visual construction of thought and feeling that parallels
the verbal
construction of poetry and the aural construction of music." Or, to quote one of
my favorite couplets by T.S. Eliot, "Oh, do not ask, 'What is it'/Let us go and
make our
visit."
Color prints, editioned in several sizes
Printed on Moad Entrada 100% rag paper with Epson Ultrachrome inks.
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