Biography
The primary critique of 99% of all contemporary pure abstraction paintings in the last 60 years, i.e. abstract-expressionisms, is that its images and its titles are merely decorative artifice & self-indulgent exstentialist non-sense, devoid of meaning, devoid of social or educational elements that speak to this 2012 contemporary age. Sixty years after its initial splash, today's abstract-expressionism and neo-abstract-expressionists are exercising an obsolete useless lexicon that is in many ways redundant and incapable of describing anything substantial and relevant to its viewer's existence in this post-industrial age. Subsequently, Color-Realism is an evolutionary and revolutionary development of the Ab-Ex corpse, a new lexical interpretation of pure abstraction, capitalizing on its multi-dimensionalism by utilizing its radical subjectivity to say something meaningful and relevant about contemporary society to its art connoisseurs, that speaks not immaterial nonsense but pragmatic material facts about current sociological, philosophical, economic, humanist conditions etc. As a result, through my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am in the midst of reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstraction; for example, such as the traditional idea that pure abstraction painting is a type of non-objectivity.
