I decided to choose to research this artist because of how contemporary and flexible his work is. His work takes a basic line and takes it farther in meaning, in space, and in motion. He enlarges the line design to get a reaction from the viewer. He makes a drawing three dimensional and becomes a transcriber to a gesture and retains the one idea to free it and make it live in the world. He is interested in filtering out all the noise of life and focusing in on what is important. I never thought about it this way, he says that if one thing has a story, then the millions of things we see everyday have a separate story, and if we tried to see them all at once then nothing is seen or noticed. We tune it out. What he is trying to do is try to see a bit more deeply into things. Not just what is on the surface.
I think its brilliant what he is doing, and the way that he had to go through sculpture and enlargements to get to now what he is doing in his paintings. I think is a wonderful concept. He plays with ideas that are opposite to eachother like his odds game with four aces and four kings, the weak vs the strong, and the weight of gravity vs the lightness of weight. Also how time, mass, length and temperature are all interlinked. I really like how he plays with the idea of linking figures to abstractions. He worked with abstracts for a long time only to turn out and put them in a figure form, to get an abstract figure. I love it.
His work is daring, complex, and fun.
He makes you question what looks right to you, and wants you to build a reaction and respond to it in your own way.
Its just cool to see something this creative but so simple in thought. Just building on one single idea until it becomes something else entirely, but keeps the same origin at heart. When it comes down to it his ideas start out simple and small and grow as his concept grows. I personally like his movement in his work, he plays with the line until it becomes alive.
