Nathan Danilowicz
My practice makes an inquiry at the intersection of art and
alchemy. It is an exploration of perception, sci-fi shamanism,
and the way experience can be informed by abstraction. Visually,
my work evokes an otherworldly dimension, while materially,
that is, in terms of the paint and the surface, it represents our
physiological experience of the world. The amalgam of these
two dynamics—visual/otherworldly and material/physiological—
is what the viewer encounters. The titles of my paintings are
deconstructions and rearrangements of language. I consider
this to be the linguistic equivalent of what is happening with their
materiality and their optical effects. These three elements—the
visual, the material, and language—are used to make something
new, yet oddly familiar.
In my work, the cosmetic cover of reality has risen to the surface
of the canvas, with no resolution offered: the paintings are antitranscendental
and finite. In these psychic places and embodied
movements, I explore the fractured psychologies that have arisen
in the midst of our dystopian techno-isolation.