Studio vists are key. It gives us the opportunity to get a progress check, provide feedback and gain a better understanding of the artist and their process.
“Experimentation is central to my work. When I come upon a new material its physical potential elicits my desire to experiment with it, and so the work evolves. The more I continue to produce art, the more I realize that my best work derives from unconscious play. The best works tend to present their concept after the work has begun.
The impossibility of understanding in advance how an artwork will evolve as I work peaks my interest. When I produce a work that I feel is successful, I make several more of its kind. However, mass production of the same kind couldn’t satisfy my inventive nature.
I have an interest in how figures and abstract forms interact with the spaces that they inhabit. I use the expressive potential of materials to explore their qualities as contained or expanding, crushed or floating upward, heavy and dark or light and airy, textured and natural or smooth and manufactured. To emphasize form, colored pigments are used sparingly. They are used to either accent the natural color of materials or to draw the eye. ”
JOINED
An exploration of new visual forms and the expressive potential of created materials.
by Dean Ramos
OPENING RECEPTION | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
6-9PM @ LINKSOUL LAB | 530 SOUTH COAST HIGHWAY | OCEANSIDE, CA