Boldt Wing: Sandra Lemke Trout Gallery
My approach to painting functions as a form of collage, where I dissect and reconstruct various visual languages to arrive at a form of abstraction that is both autobiographical and historically aware.
The work is fueled by an omnivorous appetite for visual culture, drawing from a wide array of references and techniques—including xeroxed zines, 1990s subcultures, television motion graphics, and early graffiti. These disparate elements are choreographed on the painting surface to create “Frankenstein-like” compositions that are melded but intentionally never seamless.
I aim to move beyond simply restating the formal terms of abstraction. My goal is to reshape existing visual codes into a reinvented version of abstraction that is specific to my life experiences and relevant to the current time and place.