Imagining the Spiritual
Format
Senior Art and Design Exhibition
Abstract/Artist Statement
The subject of my work is the concept of spirituality in art and how it manifests itself as the catalyst for the creation of art works. This can and should vary from person to person, but can also be phenomenally linked to different theories on life, religion, structure, the universe and the imagination. Many people meditate, distancing themselves as much as they can from the distractions of the world, while others meditate to reach a point of uninhibited creativity. My mission as an artist is to explore abstract art as a form of spiritual refreshment during a time of materialism and economic skepticism.The antecedents of my work are the abstractionist painters of the early 20th century. Wassily Kandinsky, perhaps the most influential artist and theoretician of the early 20th century and a proponent of improvisational painting, emphasized the formal properties of pure color and abstract composition as a dialect that represented the confluence of visual art and the artist’s spiritual quest.My art works is searching for analogs to spiritualism through painting by synthesizing iconography and formal elements into images that reference the release of energy, characteristic of the transformations and transfigurations, found in our modern-world of biological, mechanical and nano engineering. I hope to inspire a sense of wonder in my viewers – prodding people to question the presence or absence of spirituality and how it manifests itself in the world which they choose to exist.
Location
Reynolds Gallery
Start Date
27-4-2009 9:00 AM
End Date
16-5-2009 5:00 PM
Imagining the Spiritual
Reynolds Gallery
The subject of my work is the concept of spirituality in art and how it manifests itself as the catalyst for the creation of art works. This can and should vary from person to person, but can also be phenomenally linked to different theories on life, religion, structure, the universe and the imagination. Many people meditate, distancing themselves as much as they can from the distractions of the world, while others meditate to reach a point of uninhibited creativity. My mission as an artist is to explore abstract art as a form of spiritual refreshment during a time of materialism and economic skepticism.The antecedents of my work are the abstractionist painters of the early 20th century. Wassily Kandinsky, perhaps the most influential artist and theoretician of the early 20th century and a proponent of improvisational painting, emphasized the formal properties of pure color and abstract composition as a dialect that represented the confluence of visual art and the artist’s spiritual quest.My art works is searching for analogs to spiritualism through painting by synthesizing iconography and formal elements into images that reference the release of energy, characteristic of the transformations and transfigurations, found in our modern-world of biological, mechanical and nano engineering. I hope to inspire a sense of wonder in my viewers – prodding people to question the presence or absence of spirituality and how it manifests itself in the world which they choose to exist.