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What is it?

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There is a curious similarity I’ve noticed sometimes, between artwork made by the working class and work that is sanctioned for use by the state that you see in totalitarian dictatorships.

It seems to be an ingrained cultural insistence that artwork must strive to be as close to photographic in its representation as possible, and easily summarized, in order to be considered valuable, legitimate, or “useful” culturally.

Rather than recognizing an artwork for what it truly is - a new contribution to reality, there exists a self-imposed type of “entartete kunst” mindset, where any thought of doing something else has been quietly purged generation after generation, often beginning in the childhood of an artist, by the asking of the seemingly innocent question, “what is it?”.


David Senecal, 2019

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INDOMITABLE VERSES

This work is representative of the artist’s intense personal growth associated with a return to the essence of painting - the organic mark and an emotive quality of line that connects the present to a storied visual traditional of expression.

These works are a continuation of a rich historic tradition that first saw humans making marks to communicate and record their awareness of life with its alternating events of joy and the pain of loss.

This collection of work, with roots tracing to Lyrical Abstraction, as well as drawing from decades of experience working with digital technologies, also has given rise to its own aesthetic, characterized as Elemental Collaborativism. A hallmark of this is the inclusion of the chaotic process of natural elements used not randomly, but with chaos as a brush, handled with intent and to a powerful emotive effect.

Gone from this work is the detached irony or the clinical Modernist motive of ‘material for its own sake’ - replaced by an emphasis on the development of an intense and stormy visual dialect of implicit allegory and emotion that are as old as humanity itself.

Senecal
2018

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Many Garcias

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Hey just wanted to say thanks to all you great people who stop by and visit. 
It’s been a busy few da—okay, years. But, even though I’m not around as much as I’d like, just wanted to say I appreciate the time you spend checking out the work.

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Those who do not learn from history... something something, oh whatever, "The Apprentice" is on!



(image credit: twitter.com/CrabbyBetsy)


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Vale La Pena

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There are those for whom, the pursuit of a life as an artist is an affectation; an elective, a chosen profession, and a role to play where the cultivation of their image is more important than the work they create. For others, being an artist is no more a choice than the color of your eyes or skin or hair.

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