Vivid Series and Graduation Countdown!

Dancin' with the lights on (vivid series #1)
Oil, acrylic, neon spray paint on canvas
24" by 36"

Flamenco Dancer 2 by Fabian Perez, Remix by ZS (vivid series #2)
Oil, acrylic, neon spray paint on canvases
 

Oh My God (vivid series #3)
Snapshots from Ultra Music Festival (winner of best music festival in 2011)
Oil, acrylic, neon spray paint on canvases

Artist Statement for “Vivid” series

“Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.”

                                                                                               

-William Blake

           

            When lost inside the moment of dance with friends and strangers, one can forget all mental constrictions of what is right or wrong; what one should be doing for betterment is all forgotten. Working from ideas of being up late feeling the world spin covering worries with a drink in one hand and the other is turning the volume up on the stereo. Being caught in a dark place of people trying govern/stop others while vivid life coming from the freedom of dance appears through this darkness.

           

My source images are photographs of small get together parties of friendly freedom; single posed moving figures in dance, and images of large groups collecting together to hear the sounds of their gods persuading them to let loose and dance inside their music. These images are selected for the idea that generally these events with friends, family, strangers, and liquid courage/ freedom are shunned upon by those trying to govern. A beautiful fun vivid light that radiates through controlling darkness.

             My stylistic ideas come from the Bay Area figurative painting movement developed in the 1950s. The painting from this era generally are known for large painted figures on large canvases with vivid color and “loose/primitive (under the influence)” brushstrokes.