Sunday, December 30, 2012

Deshawn Dumas - Geometry in Reality, the 2010's

My paintings are proxy for the inherit failures of language in general and art in particular.
My excessive use of chiffon (a literal, banal commodity) instead of oil paint (a traditional and rarefied material) can be viewed as a metaphor — a means to liberate myself from a vocabulary that can no longer bare the weight of reality.
That being said, I hope to become enlightened enough to remain indifferent to most things as to avoid the moral danger of being concerned with anything.
Therefore my art as process and object celebrates destruction, mediocrity, banality and vulgarity as a perverse and sincere aesthetic conversation.























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