ART AT THE FORGE AND MORE

Abstraction provides the expressive vocabulary for my response to the global, persistent conflicts, creating emotive landscapes. The genesis for my work is the urban environ, more specifically the night city, graffiti, demolition, fire, windows, fences and walls. Each painting under goes a history of its own, as layers are added, scraped, overpainted, built and rebuilt-—the paintings evolve from depiction to a personal, evocative terrain.

Central to the work are apocalyptic stories and contemporary parallels. Since medieval times, Daniel’s interpretation of ‘handwriting on the wall’, the fall of Babylon and the tower of Babel narrative have been sources for artists. For me, they have a contemporary echo in a world abounding with reoccurring images of violence and destruction. — Alyson Schultz