Absence of Presence, Raydiance Salon, 2008

Artist Statement

My goal for the paintings was to explore the tenuous nature of objectness through interaction of the formal elements of paintings. This was achieved through the thickness of the canvases, the treatment of the sides of the canvases, and the push and pull effects of the chosen colors. The titles of the paintings suggest a specific yet completely random date in my lifetime. They are meant to rhetorically ask the viewer where he or she was on that date to perhaps conger up some forgotten moments. The featured prints are reactions to the paintings and the collages are reactions to the prints while incorporating the ideals of Colorfield Painting. This exhibition represents the beginning stage of my research of Barnett Newman and Post Painterly Colorfield Abstraction.

Lindsay Roth, 2008