Beyond the Subject

The examination of the subconscious, the expression of ineffable emotions, a sense of wonder before the exuberance or romanticism of nature, the depiction of a world map reduced to its bare essence, the staging of a dysfunctional reality, a macro vision or an exploration of the infinitely small... Whether aiming to closely mirror the intimate inner world or the one surrounding us—to enrich, pare down, or explore the essence of a subject by depicting what it conceals—there are countless, persistent, and powerful points of entry into the language of abstraction. Hors Sujet (At the Edges of Reality) explores the interstitial spaces, those delicate borderlands, between dreamlike, poetic, phantasmagorical, esoteric, Cartesian or intuitive figuration, and its metamorphosis—through drift or rupture—into pure abstraction, be it lyrical, expressionist, geometric, or non-objective. This selection of works expresses my enduring fascination with that delicate, impermanent, and floating balance; a constant back-and-forth between the motif and the elsewhere; the tangible and the imaginary; the identifiable and the unclassifiable; the subject and the Whole.