MATTHEW BOURBON: NEW DOUBT, OLD DOUBT

April 07 - May 02,2023

From Charles Adams Gallery: "This group of paintings is a representative gathering my recent efforts to streamline my work without giving up on visual complexity. In each artwork I am interested in rendering something simple that can hold many associations and potential avenues of exploration. The central object is loose referent to many things, such as the human body, landscape, architecture, and industrial and handmade objects. I think of my paintings as fragments of experience, thought, affect, and even philosophies that are corralled within the basic shapes and patterned visual language portrayed. Despite tangential associations to things and ideas, I begin each new painting with a healthy dose of not knowing. The creation of the initial shapes that I render, the methods of applying paint, and the mood of the paintings is found in process. After a few opening marks I feel pulled to lead the

paintings toward something felt or thought. There is a call and response between what I intend and what actually happens on the surface. Essentially, I make my art not to tell things, but instead to find something; to build up a relationship to the painting that feels necessary and expansive. To “not know” seems the space from which we can directly encounter the world, less encumbered if not totally free, from our own preconceived thoughts and ideas. I try and meet my paintings in this manner—with fresh eyes and an unvarnished wonder."

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