Figures and Abstracts

Gesture and posture are what interests me about the human body. Though figurative work is what I gravitate toward, I’ve found that abstraction can convey emotion and personality through the swoop of a body plane or the hollow of a negative form. I will often start with a realistic figure and then blur and blunt its specificity to create a less literal, more impressionistic form.

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Abstraction can convey emotion and personality even more powerfully than figuration.

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