Garth Weiser's paintings explore the nature of perception. Weiser's process often begins by making a three dimensional model of an abstracted form as a ?sketch? or model from which to paint. Coating his canvases with thick impasto grids or relief outlines of his composition, Weiser underscores each painting with a textured foundation which enforces the illusionary elements of scale and perspective and the gives a mimetic quality of architectural space.He mediates between the structure of an image and it's meaning. Pushing the discordant relationship between formalist rigidity and expressionistic liberty, he makes the fundamental components of image making the subject of his paintings. Each work begins with an impasto grid that acts as a scaffold upon which a figurative form is built.



This wounded, scarred surface suggests something buried underneath. In this way, Weiser creates a space that accommodates disparate readings. One involves the imaginative wanderings of figures bunkered down in layers of geometry while another is tied to paint as a material embossed upon the canvas. In ?Always Down and In? a coat of arms depicting the head of a beast emerges on the torso of the central form.Using this blueprint of spatial order as a departure point for painterly invention, Weiser's finished works disrupt and challenge visual expectation. Following the dictates of the underlying pattern, Weisher departs from the depictive ?reality? of still life to create mesmerising abstractions.

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