Devin Howell
My current body of work investigates personal stories, referencing
life in South Florida. I view these paintings as nonlinear narratives
prompted by biographical reference points. Memory is a form of
imagination directed at the past and constructed in the present. It
provides a set of specific parameters for imagery but also affords
opportunities to experiment with subject/object emphasis and
organization within the rectangle. The slippery nature of memory
lends itself to playing with ideas of spatial ambiguity, volume,
flatness, elongation, and compression. I like taking something
ephemeral and diaphanous and grounding it in a concrete,
physical application of paint, forcing the moment into a heavy
suspension.