Artist's Statement
Stephen Knudsen
My paintings are about yearning for a perfect state, one half imagined and unattainable. We seem unstoppable, even seven billion strong, and no theory or fact of disillusion seems to slow us in our dream to collectively put another foot forward in living out this time, multiplying our kind, and seeking happiness.
My yearning to make the paintings perfect is also only half imagined. They do make me feel good; sometimes even happy. At its best moving paint is like a walk in pristine wilds or in a summer garden, where the colors of a labor seem to have appeared almost effortlessly, by some magic germination of nature going through its motions in bold growth, signaling shifting sensations and perceptions in the psyche.
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