Midwest
Spotlight Artist
Boris Ostrerov
Midwest
Artist Statement
My thoughts and artistic process tend to push materials and logic
to their extremes, to the point where the material or the logic
reaches a surprising and absurd conclusion. Stacking, gravity,
and the confines or edges of the rectangle have been recurring
themes in my work for several years. I think of substrates (and
paintings in general) not just as windows but also as literal
supports and pedestals for the paint. In some pieces, I use
substrates referencing minimalist sculptures only as supports
to be decorated with shit-shaped oil paint. I squeeze paint
through cake-decorating bags because the process and resulting
extrusions are direct and imply urgent libidinal energy, excretion,
decoration, commodity, production, the body, and excess. I
present a painting language that is very honest to the technique
and process, but yields bizarre results. In the new body of work,
I introduce painting with brushes and explore the piece as both a
support and a window.
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