Planet Rock

The aesthetic approach to the paintings I call, Digirealism. It mirrors what the Photo-realists did with photography the late 1960’s. It also reexamines Andy Warhol’s elevation of printmaking as high art, since it has now become mostly a digital process. The work begins by collecting visual information from vector or digital illustrations, then hand painting works so the finished product appears to be a printed, digitally produced illustration. This approach, in my opinion, invigorates, elevates and adds value to the underlying conceptual structures embedded in work. It achieves this by utilizing techniques that simultaneously exhaust and emphasize the forth dimension of time. Since 1960 time as commodity has inflated seven times in value according to the federal minimum age. Thus, this approach also reclaims the importance of time consuming craft, and emphasizes the significance of manipulating materials with skill.