Gregory Logan Dunn
All my paintings are about color and form. The meaning behind this color and form is not defined until the event of painting. I don’t start with a preconceived idea. I don’t do drawings or sketches. But in the beginning, middle and late stages of the painting I spend extensive time visualizing each layer in terms of its color, transparency, and consistency; and how they will interact with previous and future applications.
I’m always looking for movement in the painting. I’m trying to create motion in a rending space. I think this is a reflection of my mind. I’m a bipolar artist, and I imagine the far reaches of my mind pulling at one another from opposite hemispheres.
I’m looking for marks that do not reveal or betray the artists hand.
I’m looking for color that is intense but sublime.
I want to sculpt an ethereal space from the paint.
Titling the painting is to divine its true nature, to find its true name. It might be a thought or a phrase, a line deciphered from a poem mostly written in color and form. They are songs lamenting humanity and grieving a dying world. They are longing for cosmogenesis, for spiritual enlightenment and the depravity of psychosis. Call and response for the lost transcript of a dream.
