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"painting matters", an international online painting exhibition by Craig Wortman opens on August 06 and will continue through September 06, 2021.
Craig Wortman is an abstract painter whose comprehensive work conceptually handles the discipline’s medium in a multidimensional, multifaceted progression. His process is predisposed to a sculptural manipulation of the materials and ultimately emerging as paintings.
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Artist:
Craig Wortman is an abstract painter whose comprehensive work conceptually handles the discipline’s medium in a multidimensional, multifaceted progression. His process is predisposed to a sculptural manipulation of the materials and ultimately emerging as paintings.
Craig attended Northern Illinois University, studying fine art, and then moved directly into commercial success as a scenic artist. He has had an integrative career for over twenty years, fabricating and designing both 2D and 3D for corporate events, theatre, retail display, and large-scale art installation, while at the same time moving forward with his fine art development. Together this has afforded him the opportunity to push the parameters of experimentation with countless materials, techniques, and concepts. He was born and raised in Chicago and is now raising his own family in Minnesota as he works mainly on the advancement of his fine art practice.
I believe that painting is a multidimensional endeavor, therefore I treat it as such.
The approach to my current work involves applying paint-soaked fabrics such as muslin to a wood substrate. The tousled fabric is arranged into a composition, after which I begin removing the furrows while continually painting above and below them. This sets up a situation where the actual dimensions of the surface, the paint, and even the negative space are always at play with one another. The process begins as sculptural and concludes as painting. There is an interdependent relationship between the layers which is exposed. The dance between the materials and layers leaves an echo of their movements.
By taking it past one exclusive surface plane of the painting it becomes an abstracted cogitation. The painting must then be considered beyond the confines of a simply two dimensional image...
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