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| Ian Kimmerly |
| Ian Kimmerly Statement The ideas for my paintings are born out of my interest in the relationships between images, how meaning is discovered through color, painted form, juxtaposition. The contradictions and polarities I experience both in the day to day as well as in the painting process, help me to generate ideas as well as questions, which I then incorporate into my art. I am interested in how different images as well as ideas, relate or contrast with one another; the conversation between abstraction and realism, symbolism and sentimentality. The reference photos I work from (both found and self-taken), are used to compress multiple elements into each painting: TV images, snapshots from a walk down the street, billboards, people, landscapes, and buildings. In exploring how these images should be layered and painted, the relationship between content, form and meaning is inevitably explored. It is my aim to bring both the ideas as well as the questions I have about these relationships to the foreground of my work, allowing the viewer to experience aesthetic interest and pleasure, as well a sense of tension or questioning. My paintings can look quite different from one another because my reference photos pull me in different directions in terms of subject matter. It is part of my process to maintain a dialogue with each painting, an openness to compositional decisions, as opposed to committing myself to a particular idea or destination. There are common themes that run throughout my work: the relationship between urbanism and isolation, memory, order, community and consumerism. These concepts and others are of particular interest to me and tend to dictate my choice in reference photos. Despite this, I continue to explore new territory in my work through my strong interest in formal issues, possibilities for paint application, color and meaning. My work is intended to mirror my relationship to a world where landscapes change as quickly as phone numbers. resume statement contact website |
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