David Foss
Artist’s Statement
My current paintings and sculptures are reactions to the dramatic changes that have occurred within our society and personally in recent years. I address these transformations through the use of symbols and metaphors in the creative process. Archetypes such as doorways, windows, houses and ladders serve as a common language. Working in a spontaneous and intuitive manner, I create an expressive atmosphere through color and different stylistic effects. This vocabulary ranges from heavy texture to light washes, geometric straight lines to organic forms, orderly structure to random markings and ambiguous words.
My art expresses the eternal cycles between the forces of order and entropy. Everything crosses the threshold of change leading towards new patterns and ways of being. As persons, events and things exit or fade away, there is also a continual rebirth of hopeful entrances into new forms of meaning and natural graces.