Charles Biederman

Charles Biederman at Menconi and Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC (The Armory Show 2012)

Untitled, 1935

This is the birth of a great idea.It is started to crystallize seemingly from thin air (the blue figure in the left center).  But actually you are filling the empty carcass of the idea with your previous experience, common sense and logic (lower greenish gray part of the painting). And the second source of inspiration is your passion, your feelings. The idea is changing forms, it is flexible as you progress with your thinking. You have your doubts whether it is something worthy(the waves from the center to the lower right corner). Now you are pretty advanced in developing the idea, so you are starting to think about a real implementation(the rectangles with black border).

Steve Roden

Steve Roden at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is how a process of creating art works. Something is growing inside you (a bunch of light green lines at the bottom). It goes almost invisible under the cool see of logic and conscience(the blue bunch). Everything is under the sea level, until it explodes in bright colors - orange and red. This is the artist's soul that starts to process the idea. The associations are flowing back and forth between the soul, logic and the subconscious.The dark green blobs are the artworks that being created by the process..

Diane Churchill

Diane Churchill at SOHO20 Gallery

Coming Into Orange

This is girl's love. There are lots of pink naive expectations and blue hopes. Then something not attractive(black, hairy) comes into her life. But under that facade there are layers of hope(blue), potential(green) and passion(yellow). When all those are uncovered, it is a start of a new world - orange glowing, feelings full love.

Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown at Sikkema Jenkins Co

Untitled

This is maturity of the personality. The abstract representation of a person is a circle, or a planet if you wish. Here we see that the circle is not closed yet. It moves, it changes its form and position. Some things outside the circle can be very attractive, thus the circle is not centered and moving. The personality (the circle) grows and matures as the person works (most of the time unconsciously) on his world view and life concepts.