Description
‘Durfta Mume’ by Greg Pettit
Artist: Greg Pettit
Title: ‘Durfta Mume’
Medium: Acrylic on 160lb hot press paper mounted to cradled wood
Dimensions: 19″ x 18″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
This painting started as chaotic abstraction achieved with acrylic pouring. I use this effect sometimes as a way to create a ground that I can project interior hallucinations into and then isolate, crystallize, and polish a scene out of. I created custom stencil designs in the later part of my process and airbrushed these into the composition as a kind of structural augmentation or counterpoint to the other effects. To me this painting represents the universal field in which all things are interconnected. From the cosmic to microscopic; and both predator and prey; all activity is tied together as being one endlessly recycled movement of energy. – Greg Pettit
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Austin based artist, Greg Pettit, has been painting in a variety of mediums since 2006, primarily working with airbrushed acrylics since 2016. In Greg’s paintings there is a synthesis of his love for rhythm, pattern, and movement merged with his life-long interest in dream states and observations of the natural world. These influences together toggle the line between representational and abstracted spaces and forms.
His process incorporates sculptural references, photography, and stencil design as a means of developing his painting ideas.
“My compositions are usually determined by narrowing in on some satisfying and unpredictable moment in a still-life set up I’ve created. I collect mundane objects, strip them down and paint them, and reassemble them into novel forms and environments. By decontextualizing my references I free them from any outer meaning or purpose. They function as a surrogate for me to impregnate with my own subconscious language. The objects provide enough in terms of lighting and corporeal form for me to add a sense of realism into what I do that would be harder to arrive at purely out of the imagination. I feel like this process gives me an avenue to explore the rhythmic, patterned structures that underpin natural form and human design, as if our brains urge us to create things that conform to the design principles of nature.”