Lucent
Re-imaging
I
recognize the memory of the body in my work through
the red dress drawings and the robe paintings and orient
light through color and in the overlap of layers that
creates spatial depth. Between 1984 � 2004 I have worked
within the complexities of architectural practice and
with questions of re-presentation in visual art; experimenting
through drawing (1&2) painting (3), and architecture (4,5
& 6) to study: spatial overlap, cultural transparency,
the symbolic and the ontological. These interests represent
an emergent thesis which I reference as "lucent re-imaging".
Lucent re-imaging is a multivalent project that considers
a number of conceptual positions in art and architecture
simultaneously, out of historical sequence. This re-combinative
process recognizes several layers of expression, the [
red dress ] as formalism : considering the value of directness
of expression as is not what is drawn but rather how it
is drawn, [ giza ] as the symbolic : considering a correlation
between ancient and modern language concepts through the
symbol as image-text in Egypt, as software icons in contemporary
culture, the[ begging's ] as the study of cultural artifacts
/ ontology : transparent color fields with mis-registered
lines indicating apertures eluding to infinite cosmological
space reflected by ritual and myth. �material aesthetic�
: mining the use of various materials to evoke an emotional
response of physical immediacy.
--- andrew
guidry, artist and architect
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