Detail image of Sky and Clay #10, 2024
"My work aims to bring structure and clarity from change and chaos, ultimately seeking transcendence, where pigment and oil transform into something else—fields, wood, stone, and moss. My goal is to push the limits of paint beyond mere representation in pursuit of Nature itself."
Joel Longenecker is a painter who focuses on what painters always have-paint, support, scale, color, space, light, mark, shape, texture, rhythm, movement-even before modernism made materials and process subjects in themselves, and postmodernism questioned those subjects.
- Lilly Wei