The first artist to be featured in 2015 is the amazing Jeff Cohen, a graphic designer turned fine art painter, who uses oil and encaustic on wood. What makes his works unique is that the finished works are made up of many smaller painted squares. Each of the painted wooden tiles is slightly different from its neighbour, both in colour and alignment, adding a very interesting effect to the compositions. Visually it is like looking through thick privacy glass, or windows that have become distorted with age. Artists Statement Fragments (the paintings featured in this post) I am fascinated by the layers of chaos and order that I see everywhere. Its the relationship between the chaos of blizzard and the ordered structure of a snowflake. My paintings serve as a metaphor for this effect. The grid formed by the square tiles in my paintings provide a layer of order. This gives the painting a photographic effect as the mind composites the image from the individual squares. The tiles are each rendered independently of each other, adding a layer of chaos. Order returns within each painted tile, but breaks down into chaos again as I use a loose, lively stroke when rendering each square. I didnt come up with this theory and plan my art around it. Rather, as my technique has evolved my understanding of this relationship between chaos and order has evolved along with it - which goes back into the art.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 06:00:00 +0000
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