Working Space
I like the idea as a purpose for my art: Creating a working space to place painting-making stuff; color, shape, brush strokes, spray paint strokes, rollers, collage, line. You add to this list whatever floats your boat regarding what you think paintings are these days. I have lost my compas direction for any form of definition. At least I am trying to shed definitions and just paint. I think! I like the notion of making paintings as an experience in flatland.
I define my paintings as working spaces. I want to keep the process of Automatism alive. It is hard wired to my process. I use it contstantly to make some, if not all, painting process decisions. Through some form of analysis (let’s call it dialectic analysis), I lay out the pieces of what I do on an imaginary layout table. I use my entire history of stuff to do this. Wish this could be a real experience, but at least it exists in my mind. I start the painting.
I make entries daily to my studio notes. This blog will be an arena to share some of these notes and exchange ideas.
I operate two websites. 1) davidnovakDOTcom; a site devoted to my work and ideas. 2) DPNimagesDOTcom; a site devoted to ideas and artists who also engage in abstraction in art. Several artists are featured here.
