Timo Kuzme
#121
2019
Charcoal and Oil on Canvas
96 x 120 inches
#147, 150
2020
Oil and Alkyd on Panel
48 x 96
#132
2019
Oil on Canvas
48 x 96 inches
#143, 145
2020
Oil on Panel
48 x 96 inches
#134
2019
Oil on Canvas
48 x 96 inches
#144
2020
Oil and Damar on Panel
48 x 96 inches
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#125, 126, 127, 128
2019
Oil and Graphite on Canvas
96 x 48 inches
#133
2019
Oil on Canvas
73 x 114 inches
#129, 130
2019
Oil, Graphite and Grease Pencil on Canvas
96 x 48 inches
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#118, 119, 123
2019
Oil on Canvas
96 x 48 inches
Statement
My work is rooted in my perspective as an agendered identifying person. I use mark-making, material, and the sensational capacity of painting to ask questions about body, becoming, being, and abstract notions identity; employing contemporary post-structural theories.
I build off marks generated through an intimate relationship with the surface during heightened states. I hope that my work can ultimately operate as an affectual mirror - a sensationally perceptible Deleuzian Body without Organs - that allows both the creator and the viewer to access their own.
Treating the “virtual” territory of the painting surface as an analog to a Body, I search within mysel[ves] through the surface to discover intensities that become actualized and amplified through the material.
Invisible forces begin to operate within this assemblage. Many of which abstractly resemble those of the body like systolic action or vibrational waves and networks. I hope through the work, the viewer naturally lets go of a signified or traditional phenomenological relationship with the image, and instead uses sensational logic to begin to connect with the piece and themselves.
This body of work evolved from the previous series 2 years prior - a diagrammatic exploration of sensational mark making. Built on the foundations of neurobiology, automatic writing, 19th century French philosophy, and tantra; I explored a new afferent ontological vocabulary. It distilled into the current work with a shift from representation and diagram to operation and affect.
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA) Students