Kaden Van de Loo
Region: Midwest
My paintings explore formal relationships through recurring geometric forms bound to a system of constraints. The reappearance of the same geometric forms across the body of work allows them to become familiar to the viewer, but their endless material manifestations and relationships mean constant reconsideration.
Forms exist in a flexible, single-colored space that they may sink into, emerge from, or sit on top of. Space ends at the surface’s edges, containing forms within those bounds and making each painting an isolated ecology within which forms materialize and disappear. Formal qualities and material handling amplify or obfuscate the forms’ legibility and complicate their presence within the compositional space.
Each form occupies an individualized locale, distinguished from the next and without overlapping. Their placement and relationships to each other (and the ground) create environments that allow viewers to consider the familiar and the unfamiliar, and ultimately how significance can emerge out of something inconclusive.
