Rives Granade
My work is a weave of symbols, marks, and colors heavily
influenced by digital tropes. In my paintings, I try to create
something that hovers between a picture and a sign—it
simultaneously invades the space of the viewer and provides a
space for the viewer to enter. An icon. I have always been attracted
to the artifice of cartoons, computer renderings, asemic writing,
motion graphics, dark comics, sci-fi graffiti, and psychedelic
graphic design. I approach painting as an autonomous realm
where information can become aesthetic and generate meaning
that is deep but not explicit.