statement
Drawing is contact with the Real and the Ideal and a participation in the creative action that lies behind the visible forms of Nature.
My works are abstract compositions of lines, angles and intersections.
They are improvisational in nature, begun with a line on the plane of the drawing surface. Another line is added in reaction, depending on what is called for by the weight, angle, direction, or pace of the first. A third line is added in reaction to the second and more are added and removed as parallels, crossings, obtuse and acute angles appear and begin to settle into balance. The process continues until space, light, line, angle and intersection have resolved into a resonant proportional relationship, stable but active in the plane.
Visually, they are inspired by various types of maps, architectural drawings and site plans.
Conceptually, the work is motivated by reading texts that explore objective, subjective and metaphysical views of the world around us. These have included the books of Joyce and Joycean studies, Objectivist and Concrete poetries, Pythagorean, Hermetic and Asian philosophies, theosophical concepts, social utopian idealism and some partially understood study in quantum physics and string theory. In short, all the ideas that have driven abstraction from the start.
bio
born: 1963, Ohio
education
Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, MFA, 1988
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, BFA, 1986
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Jepson Cafe, Telfair Museum of Art, Recent Work, Savannah, Georgia, 2013
ThincSavannah, Shredded Greens and White Flags (two-person exhibit), Savannah, Georgia, 2011
Local 11Ten, Yellow Paintings, Flags & Drawings, Savannah, Georgia, 2011
Rosewood Contemporary Art, Sandra Reed/John Spurlock (two-person exhibit), Savannah, Georgia, 2008
selected group shows
Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Amalgam, Huntington, West Virginia, 2015
The Art Store, December Exhibition, Charleston, West Virginia, 2014
DePree Art Center & Gallery, Hope College, End of the Line, Holland, Michigan, 2011
LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange National XXV, LaGrange, Georgia, 2008 |
