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Randall Steeves – Artist Statement My studio practice is driven by the conviction that painting’s value lies in its capacity to register an individual’s physical relationship to the essential features of reality. I’m less concerned with psychology or social behavior and more with the perception of space and the body’s inescapable submission to time. I want my paintings, at a fundamental level, to reflect the condition of being alive. I work with encaustic. The paint consists of beeswax that is heated in a pot, mixed with pigments and brushed onto canvas where it hardens immediately. The process, which involves the methodical application of layer over layer of translucent wax, results in a complex surface that can be read as a chronology of the painting’s construction and as a record of the painter’s physical presence and actions. The surface of an encaustic painting can suggest both the passage of time and a virtual, compressed spatiality that is nearly impossible to achieve with other painting mediums. My paintings are tactile things with a material presence that, through the exploitation of the basic properties of paint, attempt to preserve action in order to emulate or manifest the intricacy of something real. In this regard, the work should echo both a human being and reality and, if successful, should serve to some degree to reveal an awareness of the awesome fact that anything exists at all. Resume Education
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