STATEMENT:
A painting can function as a haunted object, a vessel of the past reverberating through the present.
These paintings have their own life. They are the product of intuition over formula. I take anything I’ve accumulated through my own life experience and apply it to material use, all the while adhering to a certain level of bewilderment.
I accept and embrace not always knowing where the process will take me, even as I conceptualize motifs, or draw a space with relative clarity. I usually reference the environments of my childhood and dreamspace, or at least a phantasmal version of those places, but I take a fairly strong anti-narrative stance throughout. I find these images reveal more about the outside viewer’s perception than anything I may intend.
All my paintings are best observed while you are alone.
- John DiLorenzo
A painting can function as a haunted object, a vessel of the past reverberating through the present.
These paintings have their own life. They are the product of intuition over formula. I take anything I’ve accumulated through my own life experience and apply it to material use, all the while adhering to a certain level of bewilderment.
I accept and embrace not always knowing where the process will take me, even as I conceptualize motifs, or draw a space with relative clarity. I usually reference the environments of my childhood and dreamspace, or at least a phantasmal version of those places, but I take a fairly strong anti-narrative stance throughout. I find these images reveal more about the outside viewer’s perception than anything I may intend.
All my paintings are best observed while you are alone.
- John DiLorenzo