Steven Foy

"My work generally, in particular, the ‘Arrangement’, ‘Tumble & Fall’ and ‘Orders’ series can be described in the crudest sense as formal abstraction.  I like to think that there is always a bit more to it than that.  Think of them as a synthesis between man-made-order and things in nature - man’s desire to regulate and organize a collection of non-specific shapes, primordial scratching in sticky colored substances.

My pre-occupation with man-made-order and organic growth make my concerns the tension between the construction of the painting, like an industrial process and the growing of something in nature from seed.

Somehow an imperfect shape is closer to nature and therefore more truthful than a strictly delineated form.  For instance, a barrel of apples from the same tree will yield a variety of rounded shapes.  All of which will be different.

The results are a contemplation of the consequences.  This is the point where more is possible."

 

Steven Foy
Tumble and Fall no.6

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