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The idea is to mix unmatchable elements, slash boundaries and create tension between opposites: a sort of “post-postmodern, post-punk, post-rave, post-medium, post-apocalyptic, 21st century post-existential Zen meditation”, at times deceptively sardonic, cynical and nihilistic. If painting is once again, really and truly dead, then I am producing its willful zombies…

I am interested in challenging aesthetic codes and preconceived notions of perception as I push, bend, merge and advance the rigid and formal art historical boundaries of minimalism, abstraction, and the conceptual, with elements of graffiti, childhood scribble, dynamic urban structure and architectural design: where quantum theory becomes spiritual and meanings and classifications dissolve. Further fueled by the timeless power, authority and brilliance of the color black, and all of its many disparate associations, I work within and against a deliberate structure/parameter, self-imposed restraint, and explore the infinite possibilities I find there.

It is my hope that through an intentional lack of definition and specificity, the viewer can begin to find there something for him or herself within the enigma, darkness and mystery that shrouds my work. A direct [visual] experience, playful, funny and brutal, that remains beyond thought, speech and words. A complete contradiction, a paradox, a koan… I have always painted outside the lines, and suppose I still do.


- Gabriel J. Shuldiner - Spring 2009

Not Static (For Parrino) (G0508)

2009
various (see below)
110 x 71 x 19 cm.