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Artist's Statement - Eugenia Pardue This body of work is about the way paint comes alive as it erupts from the picture plane into the space the viewer occupies. My paintings are about the vivid, compelling, messy, and chaotic experience of life itself, as we live it in 3-dimensional reality. This work challenges the boundary between sculpture and painting. These objects are not painted surfaces, but solid paint applied to the canvas. I have fun creating squirming, vigorous shapes, and pouring paint across the canvas like primeval lava flows or maybe a spilled glass of orange juice. Sometimes a narrative develops, and it is possible for the viewer to look at a work and deconstruct the painting to understand the chronological order I made each mark, layer upon layer. The viewer may see a topographic landscape, an underwater world, or maybe Cheez Wiz on a cracker. As
we spend more and more of our hours in front of computer monitors
or TV screens, we experience much of life through manipulative
media. With our experience of reality increasingly mediated by
2 dimensional illusions, we risk losing touch with the beautiful,
physical, and always challenging aspects of life that give meaning
to our existence. Like spicy green curry, the paintings in this
body of work call for a return to
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