Josh Peters
In my work, I attempt to harness the tension between opposing
forces, from the conscious and the unconscious to the accidental
and the very deliberate. I often start the paintings by wetting
and painting the back of a canvas or linen (so that the paint
seeps through to what will become the front) and then inserting
additional elements and textures. In this way, a great sense of
unpredictability unfolds, enabling an amalgamation of naked
process and careful planning.
The paintings are frozen in the act of becoming. At its genesis, a
painting has a very powerful and unique energy. I hope to capture
this and to put it into perfect, weightless balance. The aim is to
carve out an evocative region in that particular and peculiar
dimension: “painted space.”