Artist Statement
I make paintings, usually medium to large, with oil paint, and occasional other materials. Over time, I have developed a personal visual language that I use to communicate and to evoke. My paintings occupy the role of vessel for ideas and emotions: akin to keeping a diary. They are memorials to events and losses, they are markers of what I have thought and dreamed of.
The idea of a personal language is dear to me and informs my evolution and direction as a painter. I am also interested in the idea of a memorial, or a physical space which serves as a marker or vessel for emotions often nuanced and complex. The idea of the stand-in or placeholder is relevant to my use of painting as a surrogate for my own complex emotions.
I seek in my work to occupy the grey area between “representation” and “abstraction”– or rather, to carve out a place which is neither. I am interested in making paintings which do not illustrate ideas but rather embody them, an idea I describe as “being-ness”.
My future goals are simply to continue.
Website
www.rembert.org
