My work has evolved from representions of fictional sites comprised of angular, personified forms into a world of open decision making. Sometimes representational / sometimes abstract. Always abstract / always representational.

The title of the show "Plastic Island" refers to the state of production. The process of sculpting each painting into well formed shapes of substance. The works are painted with a viscious urethane paint that necessites them being painted flat. There are in some ways a pile of infinite puddles; liquid on solid- the reverse island.

Each painting is an entity onto itself- an island. Perhaps there are island in a chain. And perhaps it in the cartography of the "places" that we find their group meaning. Where a slumping drinker becomes a mountain of green shade glass- as in the drinker- we then see the "Net" as safety net for our sullen figure. Or perhaps we can see portraits in the seemingly flat surfaces of the woodgrain pictures when we see them with the painting "Wigged Pig/Plank".

I think all the paintings need to be seen as weird vision- perhaps motion, inwards and outwards- in flux- like the thoughts of a sailor fluctuating between dreams of land, dizzying migraine flashes, or even the boards that buckle next to his below deck bunk.
- Dan KOPP

Courtesy of Motus Fort