Greg W. Schenk

My work directly addresses the function of art in the emerging post petroleum era. Through persistent experimentation with material and process I explore the perceived boundaries of art making; and I have found that process equals politic. Each work is the sum of all interactions accrued in it’s formation, and thus a social and economic ritual as well as construction. My concepts are reified in graphics, paintings and sculpture. Graphics include all printed materials, web published images, rich media and text. The obvious subject is color; with hyper-saturated paintings I assail the fallacies of oil painting, primarily through process. These coexist in my oeuvre with interactive sculptures that are at once objects and social nexus; combining a tactile personal experience with shared communications in a larger community. Underlying all, I am interested in how change is effected through incremental advances, color, and methods of control.

 

Greg lives and works around Los Angeles.