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John Rudel - Work Statement
I’m interested in how the “recipe of particulars” within a painting makes it work as a carrier of sensation. I like images and motifs that escape duration and reflect the infinite time that is inside of still images. I’m attracted to pictures that might hold a viewer’s interest, such as the spectacle of a sunset or a crowd scene. Recognizable images have the power to engage a viewer in a familiar way while underlying surface texture, color sensibility, or competing hyper decorative patterns might inspire the evolution of a more poetic, ambiguous, or deeper interpretation.

My work invites the rapid and quickly gratifying world of digital image reproduction into the slow and reflective process of painting. In my work visual competition is symbolic of a continuous oscillation, a constant re-positioning of my thinking between ideas and mindsets. Information comes to me as a matrix of comparisons. My work comes about in much the same way. My images are the result of an imperfect physical process. They are visual discoveries that embody the subtle and lost decisions that build up over time and crease one's skin and shape one’s character.

Mixed Media Paintings

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Drawings
Cut Drywall Series and Nail Rust Series