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Artist Statement for Stephen Woods
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Language and color are placed together as a representation of the times we live in. Using western culture, how it relates within itself and to the non-western world as a vehicle for decision making. Consequently, discourse that is pertinent to global society is comprehended and then manipulated to read out of sync, to what is being broadcasted. The results can be arbitrary, didactic or humorous, but plays no strong emphasis on any. The cause/effect can result in conflict between the composed elements: visual and conceptual. Time lines cross and ideologies clash in an effort to coexist.
There are no traditional techniques deliberately being used nor is there any desire for the craft to be polished perfection. A contrived folk art sensibility permeates around a contour line that controls color and collage within their designated boundaries. The collage materials (newspaper, bath towels, garments) float above the surface and flicker between the materials they are made from and the forms they are depicting. Doing this disconnects the background and creates a rudimentary three-dimensional effect. The background is doing something similar and can be perceived in two ways; the reality of what it is or as empty/infinite space. The painted color is sometimes flat or has subtle three-dimensional modeling: objects occasionally cast shadows or have light bounce of them. The palette is usually complementary, with the values manipulated to where I want the image to sit in relation to fore, middle and background. Line, shape and perspective are also manipulated to distort how things look objectively.
An abstract language between color, composition, materials and concept is visualized. Documenting and paralleling a discombobulated world, objects appear abstract in color and scale, perspective lines do not meet their vanishing points, solid forms are made from soft materials, societal norms are abnormal. Contortions of factors collide, placed vicariously between reality and pictorial illusions, to stir the senses and emotions, to ask questions and to tear down psychological walls. The images made exist in a multi-layered format between the viewers subconscious and the illusion of infinite space.
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