Apocalyptic Architecture

Saturday, December 18, 2010




As quoted by Jean-Pierre Roy at length:


'My paintings are the result of a life spent wanting to know what forces make up the cosmos. They are totems to the sublime nature of change, and pictoral meditations meant to slow our passage through the 4th dimension. It is the search for a balance of opposing forces - atomic cohesion vs. repulsion, the manufactured vs. natural systems of organization, precision vs. abstraction, hard vs. soft, and broken vs. whole - that drives my desire to discover the divine systems of the universe.


While asknowledging their cinematic escapist influences, my dystopian constructions of a new American Mythology join a more psychological tradition of apocolyptic self-exploration and spectacle...a 'romantic landscape' born of a post-Hollywood age.'

I Never Meant to Remember All This, oil on panel


Dream of Parted Steal, oil on canvas, 2008

We Make Our Own Meridians, oil on panel, 2008

The End of the Old Model, oil on canvas, 2008

The Parade of the Blind Traveller, oil on canvas, 2007

The Defeat of Anthropy, oil on canvas, 2007
[All photos by Jean-Pierre Roy]

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