artist statement
Looking to post-Warhol abstraction and notions about the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, my work questions conventional approaches to transferring liquid matter to canvas. My most recent body of work is influenced by large bodies of blind contour line drawings about architectural space. This approach to composing a picture connects with the automatism of Surrealism and Dada.
The conceptual strategy for these works concerns process and involves a recombination of analog painting methods and industrial technique. They emphasize what Dick Higgins calls “the dialectic between media” and consider our new ways of communicating pictorially. These paintings explore line using analog, brushless painting processes, while also examining the interstices of primary color systems: paint (RYB), screen (RGB) and print (CMYK).
The conceptual strategy for these works concerns process and involves a recombination of analog painting methods and industrial technique. They emphasize what Dick Higgins calls “the dialectic between media” and consider our new ways of communicating pictorially. These paintings explore line using analog, brushless painting processes, while also examining the interstices of primary color systems: paint (RYB), screen (RGB) and print (CMYK).
bio
Liz Trosper is an artist, MFA candidate at UT Dallas and a former resident at CentralTrak: The UT Dallas Artist's Residency. Trosper teaches visual thinking strategies for the Dallas Contemporary in addition to maintaining a regular studio practice. Trosper's artwork pursues abstraction using interdisciplinary approaches to drawing and painting.