Question of Moves by Jay Songero

Artist Statement:
The work is a personal need to express shape, color and form through visual impact for the viewer, stimulating their imagination and interpretation. Songero attempts to eradicate any sense of narrative, reducing to only the materiality of paint itself. Painted in first person, as all abstract art becomes as he believes, allows the viewer to come to their own interpretation and vision without a recognizable second person image such as realistic painting. Songero has tried to bring a unique personal approach to color field, stain and expressionistic painting. Being deeply rooted in the New York school such as the greats, Still, Louis, Frankenthaler, Rothko and Newman. Songero being loosely aligned with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, has battled art history to move to new levels in painting. He views painting as a chess game of life and experience between the artist and the art, a continual battle of self and truth in personal expression.

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