January, 2007

Combining flowing color, staccato mark making, and collage my desire is to create paintings that appear to have grown into being. My recent work explores the complexities of urban and natural growth, graffiti and pornographic images; the jazzy wallpaper that streams peripherally past as I make my daily bicycle commute from Williamsburg to the West Village. Making use of repetition, reduction and accumulation of marks in an attempt to unite these disparate influences, I enter the empty canvas and inhabit it to incorporate residual mental and found imagery into marks that reveal a sense of evolution and growth.

Photograph copyright Qz Zhang