Painting, New to One of a Kind
Brandon McKenzie Art
Minimal greyscale abstract landscape paintings
I’m a painter and designer from Dallas, Texas who now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
My work uses a limited, minimal palette, that focuses on a rhythm of compositional studies that are built on the idea of palimpsest. The pieces go through a month’s long process where they are continually reworked, and where each new layer is being influenced by the last. The driving idea behind all these works is that the process is primary, and product is secondary. The act, movement, reaction, and exploration is what’s seen in the expression of the work’s final iteration. I don’t go into a painting with the expectation of creating some specific idea that I’ve worked out and tested and prepared for, but rather, I go into a painting with the expectation of what the process is going to be, how that process is going to work, and using that process to create what is trying to be revealed.
My work uses a limited, minimal palette, that focuses on a rhythm of compositional studies that are built on the idea of palimpsest. The pieces go through a month’s long process where they are continually reworked, and where each new layer is being influenced by the last. The driving idea behind all these works is that the process is primary, and product is secondary. The act, movement, reaction, and exploration is what’s seen in the expression of the work’s final iteration. I don’t go into a painting with the expectation of creating some specific idea that I’ve worked out and tested and prepared for, but rather, I go into a painting with the expectation of what the process is going to be, how that process is going to work, and using that process to create what is trying to be revealed.
