Nouns & Other Words
A collection of simple and direct paintings.
I’ve always loved paintings with a lots of negative space. Instead of objects filling in the background, Nouns & Other Words was my own exploration into the blunt style I’ve always loved, but never painted myself. Coming from a background in serigraphy, these paintings where created using a similar approach as the printing techniques. A stencil was cut in the shape of an apple, painted, and then peeled off. The work became mono-prints since the images were predestined by the stencil’s form.
When editing the pieces for the show, I would ask my son, Oliver (who was 2-yrs old at the time), if he could tell what I painted. I would ask, “Hey, Ollie. What is this?” He would then reply, “a dirty hat?”. Success. His response would become the title of the painting.
© 2012, Andrew Neyer
