Why line-figures? Abstracts? Why immiscible media?
What I am trying to do here is not simply
to create a visual likeness of nature, or the impression of a moment of light, instead I am looking to record the connection between the subject and
the artist. I am striving to form a direct link between the subject, the eye and the hand; quickly, without time to think, without letting cognition
get in the way of pure perception. To draw what the eye sees, not what we think we see, or what we know to be there.
Consequently, these
are not works of expression, but instead serve as a record; to be retraced by the viewer, and connect them to the subject as experienced by the
artist. The artist becomes the medium; who leaves evidence of presence in the line, the texture and the broken sections of color. The ultimate
subject of the work becomes this unconscious connection.
Uniformity puts the mind to sleep, while tension awakens it. Like a Zen Koan, the tension of the different media serves to disorient the viewer, distract them for just long enough
to allow the eye to take-in the image in a pre-conceptual way. The dynamics of color alone can achieve this, however I am also searching for it in the interaction of different immiscible media.
A self-taught artist, Mark Kostuk is from upstate NY; when he's not painting, travelling, or both, is hanging out with his two kittens in Southern California.
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