Donald Fodness
Gallery Affiliations: Plus Gallery
Region: West
Website: http://www.donaldfodness.org
City / State: Denver, CO
My imagery is a collision of sources, styles, and subjects that
operates as an open-ended and nonlinear construction of reality.
Like the Internet, and a good soap opera, my art provides the viewer
with a multiplicity of accessible inlets and sub-narrative paths
with which to weave a tangled cosmos. Crawling over, climbing
out, hiding within, defacing, and digesting the surroundings, in
these psychological environments culture is filtered through
a feedback loop of the kitsch and banal to surface a grotesque
comedy. My work exists somewhere between the juvenile wit of
an angsty teen and the opportunistic documentarian folk artist
painting on rusty saw blades.
I work with readymade systems and personal narrative as a
departure point. These structures provide me with parameters
for finding, hiding, and projecting imagery. While I insert personal
history into the work, I am less interested in autobiography than in
viewers recognizing themselves in a hermetic complexity.