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Joe LaMattina: _Vices~ A

Joe LaMattina: _Vices~ A

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This piece is from a series that I am currently developing. I am using selected paintings from my portfolio as inspirations for 12’X12′ reinventions. The original paintings are scanned, transformed to black & white, and then selected parts are reduced to fit within a 12’X12′ format. They are then roughly collaged onto stretched canvases and reworked. Red lines unify the pieces in the series.

Category: ViewPoints 2020. Tags: Collage, figurative, Mixed Media, painting.
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Being creative can seem daunting in a world that values logic over imagination, practicality over dreaming.  In my work I love to experiment and play, to mix it all up. “Play is not the antithesis of something that is important!  To have playful thinking requires a sense of lightness and fluidity.”
Since most of my current work is mixed media, I usually start my work through drawing and mark-making, but ultimately add paint, collage, and any unusual, non-traditional materials that I am drawn to at the moment of creation.  This is usually followed by a ripping, tearing, scratching, pouring, splattering, deconstructive frenzy.  Eventually, I become immersed in the piece and begin building it back up with layers of texture.  I enjoy watching one medium spontaneously react to another.  Choosing between chaos and control as my hand hovers over a canvas is an exciting place to be.  Recently, I have allowed my work to rest here, completed, in a genre I call, “Organic Series”.  For me, they are truly Spiritual.
Should subject matter begin to surface, it is 99.9% figurative.   At this point in time, the majority of my portfolio consists of “Figurative Works”.  Interpreting and manipulating the human form is what excites me and fuels my spirit to create.  I love to juxtapose unrelated images that I invite to work together through theme, color, placement and composition.  Because these images that inspire me come from very different sources and experiences, I like to call this process of combining them, “Recycled Consciousness.”  Never losing sight of the initial pencil marks, which are important to me, I often strive to have some remain in the finished piece.  Like doodles in a sketchbook, they evoke the same spontaneous quality that I enjoy.  Since I have always loved the feeling and emotion of Edward Hopper’s paintings; the random slices of time, frozen and isolated, my work subconsciously takes on that trait.

I love the journey my art takes me on.  Regardless of subject matter or not, I love to present works with open-ended narratives.  This allows the viewers to establish their own relationships and to create their own dialogue based on the information that I provide for them.

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12inX12in

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Acrylic, Collage, mixed media on canvas

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http://www.joelamattina.com

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