New American Painting Techniques

Many paintings consist of thousands, if not tens of thousands of individual brushstrokes. These brushstrokes exist on the painting’s surface, in the many layers that were used to shape, build, and refine the work, down to the gesso or isolation coats. My layer paintings deconstruct this process and instead, display every color and line simultaneously. It takes roughly 1,200 layers of acrylic paint to rise one vertical inch. The result is a painting in which the outside is the inside and the inside is the outside. These are two dimensional works consisting entirely of the third dimension. Cut away the surface of the painting and you have more of the same: a painting beneath a painting beneath a painting.