My art making — Monday, July 23, 2007

I define my paintings as working spaces. I create a 2-d space to locate painting-making stuff — color, geometry, brush strokes, texture, collage, line. Additions to this list are endless. There is such a wealth of paint-making-stuff available today.

It is my belief Automatism is hard-wired to my process. I use it to make process decisions. Through dialectic analysis, I lay out the pieces of what I do, past and present, on a mental table. Where needed, I appropriate additional stuff from other art movements and artists as well. I select a piece here, take a piece there, make some arrangements on a computer or improv on the painting itself, remove a piece here, remove a piece there, add here, add there, and so on. Eventually I arrive at an arrangement that I like. I Make a painting to fit the working space. Nothing is permanent. Everything is open to further revision and work.

2007: I am exploring automatism and chance to objectify the unknown as it relates to emotion, vision, sound and ambient surroundings. Initial structure is 1) invented on computer— modified— transferred to related support size and completed; or 2) invented directly on the support, modified as necessary to bring it to a conclusion. This project explores concepts of simplicity, flatness, color, shape. It is an experience and should be interpreted as such. There is no translation into words.

Please visit davidnovak.com to view my work and its history.