Artist statement

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Artist statements sometimes rely on creative writing afterward to give artwork faux social/political/aesthetic/$ value.  And there's also a lot of time to think about yourself during the hours spent watching artwork develop.

 

I have considered my work in the context of historical modern - specifically linear abstract art.  I've even convinced myself that I have created penultimate irony by “baroquing up” minimalism.  For me, the inevitable progression of working with minimalist principles means degrading them by compounding many lines and shapes, mixing organic textures into hard-edge linear forms, and even adding declassé shiny stuff.  

 

But my art history education and original minimalist art itself are many decades surpassed.   And MCM artists aren’t the only reasons that we all know shapes and lines. 

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The busyness resembles my mind struggling to complete a single five-word thought.  But it also illustrates, for me, perfectly achieved balance and harmony of innumerable little details.  It's as much integrated circuitry as it is crazy quilting.  But these are after-the-fact comparisons.

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I do have an honest origin story for any artwork I make with lines.  There once were overwhelming circumstances and painting simple lines over and over was good therapy.  But should that really give my work more gravita$$$?

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Actually, I am just making what I think looks good and meaningfully different right now.   If you're inclined, seize on a focal point and meditate.  Or take in all the energy and components at once an extrapolate a grand plan

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Thanks,

Lisa Loudermilk

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