Digital Memoir | Volume Four – Arts Journal Zine

E-Painting by DSC (2015) Digital C Print 18x25in MonoPrintSeries50

Drawing As Metaphor

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

–James Thurber

Digital Memoir has been a series of essays focusing on portraying a single road map. That is, the act behind communication using visual cues embedded in story telling principles. My work as a visual artist is a dearly important part time endeavor. It focuses on expressing my inner voice while exploring several motifs within the ream of surreal forms seen in abstraction. As I move forward executing new works in painting, these early documentary drawings can be seen as blueprints.

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A visual metaphor within a cubicle system represents two tectonic ideals.

“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost”.

–James Thurber

In combination with:

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
–James Thurber

Contemporary Art

Galleries

New Paintings On Wood, ( 2015 )

First Steps In Picture Making,

Study for Abstract Painting on Wood-2015 by DSC

The works on view represent a radical departure from the small 8.5x11in drawings I have been showing hitherto. They are a physical manifestation of a retrospective catalog that has been explored on paper and now needs to continue evolving into abstract painting. A logical progression which began in a small cubicle space studio room nearly two decades ago. The paintings are between 18x24in into 24x24in monumental pieces to come later this year.

I begin with a solid black line made between a sharpie marker and a quill black pen. These lines are not meant to be seen as under painting marks, but rather when I begin the painting process, they will be incorporated. I hope to publish the entire series along with several other leading contemporary artist in a web project entitled:

“The Beta Issue”

E-Painting

First Steps Using Corel Painter ( 2015 )

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These explorations using Corel PainterX are an attempt not to abandon traditional tools of art making, such as pen, paper and paint. David Hockney himself was one of the first artist during the late 1980s who actually first tried using a computer to create digital paintings. E-Painting explores such motifs in a modern form of self exploration and rational thinking, while combining the analog with the digital is surreal forms of self expression.

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Works On Paper (2005-2008)

Boy Toy Figuration,

I have always admire the art of Sigmar Polke as truly original master works of contemporary art. His ability to modulate beyond genre, medium and style in art making has always motivated me within my own process as a visual thinker. The Boy Toy Figuration drawings are a small collection of works ranging between 8.5x11in with various degree of execution styles. Pen, pencil, crayon, maker, oiled stained and color pencil on stationary paper. Each portfolio is divided into three sets as in a musical composition note where improvisation and tempo rule supreme. Distortion, abstraction and form are basic compositional notes in my visual art. These themes are nothing new within Contemporary art practice, yet they may seem strange to the untrained eye.

The years between 2005-2008 are a representation of struggling between how to make it in NYC art world while finding artist spaces at affordable prices. While dealing with uncultured Neanderthals, the following statement homes true for me.