Alexander Puz
Medium: Painting Studio Location: 23-07 38th Ave. - Studio# 221 Email: alexanderpuz@gmail.com Website:: www.alexanderpuz.com Artist Bio: Born Midland, MI. 1989 BFA Hunter College, 2014. Artist Statement: My practice begins with the idea that specific applications of form, color, texture and gradient determine a works meaning. By selectively placing these elements on the canvas, the compositions take on an impersonal but undeniable psychological weight. As a rationalist, I see painting as a unique means of enacting logic unaffected by subjectivity or identity- the break from the modernist emphasis of the individual genius. I maintain a process based approach- painted forms become measured, behavioral elements, conditioning and conditioned by the final composition. By transforming and observing a set of elements, their specific tendencies on the canvas become clear. It is this careful approach that produces a painterly cypher for examining perception. This conceptual foundation for my work allows a step by step diagnosis and reconstruction of the bias inherent in traditional subject matter and common painterly moves. All images and text copyright Alexander Puz