Vincent Mikuska

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Artist Bio:

My work is an integration and re-imagining of elements of my natural and suburban surroundings. I am traversing the boundaries between more and less representational images.
Form, space and colour are used to create images that also use the concept of time and memory.

After my last exhibition I decided to revisit some of the work. As I painted over them I began to develop rectangular areas that lay adjacent to or under the area of main focus. These became “paintings in a painting”. There were traces of what had been there previously, augmenting the underpainting and giving rise to further areas. The “paintings in the painting” are constituent parts of the memory experience. They can be a portion of the memory or an addition to it. There are many horizontals due to these rectangles. They are both physical and metaphorical.

The piling accumulation of these images becomes a reference to memory. Memories do not exist as a photograph, a moment in time. As they evolve and accumulate further experiences, they become blurred and layered. This is episodic memory, which is driven by emotion not details.