Natural InclinationFrom the Artist I am interested in an approach to art making that explores the often conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions in geometric patterns found in other cultures and western modernism. However, [my] recent [as of 2019] paintings, prints, and collage drawings avoid culturally specific subject matter in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction. Inasmuch, my work attempts to reflect a broader

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Rohan McDonald

At the center of the composition stand two figures in Herero traditional attire

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Through a juxtaposition of patterns and textures I also create a sense of movement in what appears at first to be a static scene

That process over time has involved a multitude of techniques that include scrubbing graphite and paint into gessoed surfaces

move my studio

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This is not exactly what Pollock called “a portable mural” but it is large enough to get absorbed into the visual field

feelings that I probably do not have the same skill in articulating in other areas of life

a painterly offset lithograph where his body emerges out of plant-like and water forms

air and water together make steam and fire is present as the source for heat