Contact me at: artist@lizscape.com
About The Work
Each of the pictures responds to the stimulation of an important concept discovery that provides insight into the nature of color and time, for their ability to alter perception and to evoke innumerable readings in our imagination. The source for the collective mood (optical illusion, pop art, surrealism, abstract art) borrows lessons learned from abstract expressionists.
Each person will perceive a picture in different ways enlivened by context and memory, influenced by preference or experience. All these aspects add nuance to the whole and likewise, can alter or neutralize the state between first awareness and repeated viewing.
Beyond color juxtaposition, the work aims to influence perception using psychology. The psychology of who you are to the outside world (the role, mask, superficial exterior self) and the exploration of who you are inside (the inner personae) is of utmost importance to a portrait. Both views of a person tell a story about time and its meaning for that person…remembering things in the past, crossing from your shadow (unrevealed self) to light. My latest mono-prints of people are a meditation on the psychology of Carl G. Jung. The interior person, which is the more intimate version of self, often observes from a window. The interior is a shadow of the outer image and role. This shadow (e.g. a photographic negative) may be the part of oneself that is conflicted, even underdeveloped. It is also the genius native to each individual; one stumbles over the image in fantasy.
The Technique is Called New Art
My color concept is that mathematics when applied as set theory and patterns of color can lead to universal harmony in paintings.
In my work relativity of color is explored for its impact on the viewer to create overall color harmony i.e., juxtaposition, gradation, hue, intensity, quantity, using mathematical sets to express designs. Possible Set Designs are:
• an intersection of sets,
• a union of sets,
• a complement,
• a set difference,
• disjoint sets, and so forth.
Designed Colors Sets of different combinations will influence the color universe of the total picture. Each set is a transforming agent, intended to discover new harmonies and become a variant in the picture’s integration. By repeating sets (as larger or smaller "parts" of a still-life or portrait) the time element is introduced. Moreover, earlier color metaphors take on a new tempo, as they are enhanced or diminished (repeated, made larger, smaller, lighter, darker) with an emphasis on layering. In short, by repeating color sets you see the subject evolving in time. Finally, art with psychology has soul; art with mathematical color theory has algorithm. Each enriches your observation.