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Crackpot Realism
Things have their meaning and beauty as well as their existence through relationships. Art is a way of thinking about these relationships, a way of thinking about life. Crackpot Realism offers a new perspective using a variety of materials involving relationships concerned with social relevance and emotional experiences. In Crackpot Realism there is no distinction between living and making art. The painting is not a representation of life, but a real thing, an object in a real space, that can be experienced as a picture. Crackpot Realism allows for interaction between physical materials and mental associations.
The integration of tar, cement, wax, latex, steel, objects and other “non-art” materials along with traditional art materials, eliminates boundaries creating new form. We are able to experience them from an unconventional perspective with a certain freshness. Some materials allow for spontaneity and immediacy, while others are slow and laborious and resistant. Every material offers a series of sensibilities. The materials are real, forming rhythms and patterns obeying the same forces of nature governing all things. Assemblage and collage are methods used to add elements unique to the material, not as a substitute for the painted form or drawn line. Text is used as both a visual and a political element. Through the combination of image and the written word, the paintings can literally be read on several different levels.
Crackpot Realism constructs vehicles for emotional states that evoke contemplation with references to inner and outer worlds. Emotion seeks out certain patterns, rhythms, and form to penetrate beyond the superficial appearance of things creating a state of mind that is disoriented from the outside world. The perception is a new abstract realism, Crackpot Realism