THE WORK
The work is about pure painting: the simple truth. It is a convergence of color, shape, stroke, and line. With the intention of building something from nothing come emerging symbols, faces, things and noticeable images that reveal themselves. I paint from myself, not from an object, a clever thought, trend or gimmick. I construct and deconstruct until I unravel an abstract portrait. I do not analyze, strategize or conceptualize anything. I paint, build, layer, let the painting happen, and follow it. I call the body of the painting the groundwork. I call the second layer the framework, and the third layer the depth of field. This also provides a hierarchy of the different forms as well as maintaining a dream-like quality. All of this is done through what I like to call the Free Association Process. But in all of my work the root is that of harnessing & restraing the power that lays underneath while other works are letting the power rip and roar.
I relate to the school of thought/process from the periods of Miro, Motherwell, Picasso, De Kooning, Kline, and Pollack. While a photographer captures one single moment on film/digitally, I paint moment by moment until I see and feel I have all the right moments captured on the canvas, so much so I can call it finished. Then, I see a grid-like abstract life portrait of things I have not seen before. I won’t allow myself to transfer an image, an object, or an idea to the canvas. I am not interested in that. What I am interested in is allowing something to happen, something that was not happening before, that does not already exist. The work then is ironic and intuitively forming; breathing with a presence of its own and features the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions. I call this liberation of imagination.
Working in my studio in downtown Los Angeles, I have been exhibiting since 1987. I have showed in Columbus (Ohio), upstate New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, and Vail (Colorado). My list of collectors includes celebrities such as Jane Lynch, Sela Ward and Robert Gore Rifkind (Rifkind Foundation of LACMA). I have exhibited with Jane Seymour, Tony Bennett and established artist Sam Francis. My work also appears in commercials such as American Express, Budweiser (superbowl 2012), Time Warner, Apple and in the film “Oceans 13”. Every month my collector list grows, leaving me grateful and hungry to create more and more. I have a solo exhibit coming up this Summer 2012 with the Katherine Cone (previous Curator for Shepard Fairy’s Gallery Subliminal Projects) Gallery, as well as a solo show in Santa Barbara at Artamo Gallery in May. My work can also be seen at www.masterpol.com.
Management:
Jessica Junyent
t 310.666.9246
jessicajunyent@aol.com
For Purchasing Inquiries Please contact:
SANTA FE, NM
Pippin Contemporary
125 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, New Mexico
t. 505.795.7476
www.pippincontemporary.com
NEW ORLEANS, LA
Gallery Orange LLC
819 Royal Street,
New Orleans, 70116 LA
t. 504-875-4006
SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CA
Artamo Gallery
11 West Anapamu Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101
t 805.568.1400
info@artamogallery.com
VAIL,COLORADO
Artful Sol Gallery
183 Gore Creek Dr. Suite 6,
Vail, Colorado, 81657
t 970.476.1339
ccherylnvail@gmail.com
For Leasing services please contact:
Wallspace LA
606 N. La BRea Ave.
Los ANgeles, CA
t 213.840.9303
valda@wallspacela.com
Art Dimensions, Inc.
13428 Maxella Ave, STE. 903
Marica del Rey, CA 90292
t 310.433.8934
whitneyrosenson@mac.com
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