Action & Squeegee Painting
11 images Created 21 Jun 2021
In these bodies of work I am borrowing from the techniques of Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock, two painters who apply paint in very different, and unique, ways.
I am really stimulated by the "squeegee and scraping" work of Gerhard Richter. While he tends to work on large canvases with squeegees that are probably six feet long, I work smaller, using everything from various sizes of putty knives from a hardware store, to longer "squeegees" of various materials and densities. It's all about the process of adding painting intuitively, and then scraping it away intuitively - adding, subtracting and repeating.
For my Pollock inspired work, I use much smaller canvases, and anything from chopsticks to paint stirring sticks to drip, fling, drizzle and drop paint onto a canvas laying flat on my work space. i typically do this painting to music, which influences my color choices, my arm movements and every thing else. Like Pollock, I am choreographic an acrylic string dance on canvas.
I am really stimulated by the "squeegee and scraping" work of Gerhard Richter. While he tends to work on large canvases with squeegees that are probably six feet long, I work smaller, using everything from various sizes of putty knives from a hardware store, to longer "squeegees" of various materials and densities. It's all about the process of adding painting intuitively, and then scraping it away intuitively - adding, subtracting and repeating.
For my Pollock inspired work, I use much smaller canvases, and anything from chopsticks to paint stirring sticks to drip, fling, drizzle and drop paint onto a canvas laying flat on my work space. i typically do this painting to music, which influences my color choices, my arm movements and every thing else. Like Pollock, I am choreographic an acrylic string dance on canvas.
