Leo Fine

Artist Statement: Through methodical process and slow attention, my creative practice offers myself and my audience an open-ended temporal atmosphere where opportunity for unfamiliar truths emerges. I choose to work with rigid, exacting sculptural techniques, requiring development of a greater focus and creativity within material constraints. By prolonging the labor involved and approaching the work as craft, my process becomes an act of meditation, anchored by repetition of simple forms. Small, uncomplicated geometric ideas are iterated and gradually transformed into enveloping fields of pattern and texture. The work flouts standardized framing and categorizations, with fragile, open forms that recede and protrude in all directions. A recurring conflict between flatness and depth generates optical illusions, which require the viewer to linger in order to understand. Light and shadow echo through the forms and capture the audience in sensation, spurring an encounter with an ambiguous kind of reflection. The work inhabits a subconscious territory through abstraction, encouraging the viewer to experience it inwardly; when representative imagery is used, it is manipulated to strip the subject’s recognizable features and draw focus to the piece’s affect instead. Through this durational meditation, my work investigates quieter states of consciousness and introspection in search of hidden meaning and feeling.

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