
Spotlight Artist
Donald Fodness
West
Artist Statement
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.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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