Art and Images
from Steven J. Duede

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Volume 1, Issue number 12

"Drifting floor was stumbled upon initially a couple of years ago in the tidal pools on the gulf of Mexico. These images left an enduring mark on me and I'd reflect on them often. In summer of 2003 I began to collect images from the 'drifting floors' of the beaches south of the Massachusetts bay in Duxbury. I'm compelled to collect and compile these images bringing together the natural rythms of the floor, the sea, and present them using imperfect digital technology, photographs. As in my painting over the years I'm drawn to the natural rythms and textures in ourselves and through the brush stroke or snapshot. This series Volume one is just that, a snapshot of the rythm in tide and drift."
10/20/2003 Steven J. Duede

interchangeable landscape series-Multiscape I, 2002 acrylic/canvas

"In the interchangeable landscape series I reduced the archetypal landscape painting to its' most banal. Simple, yet rich in texture. Painting for me is much about a sense of rythm. I'm working in oil pastel, acrylic and mixed media as well as digital collage and photography. I search for the canvas equivalent of the emotional impact of repetition and rythm of form in landscape or within the form of nonrepresentational imagery. I find this equivalent in the hidden design within the fast and natural movement of color and texture in media and all around us, in images that are simple and at times congested. " sjd 2002






"In this most recent group of paintings I'm exploring congestion in rythm and form through rich and assaulting color. I'm using thick, almost abrasive brush strokes to create fast rythmic juxtopositions."

"In these paintings I am dealing exclusively with rich colors, texture and rythm; things one can see immediately or through passive viewing. Sensitive to these issues I am to build and rebuild the works. Orchestrating a symphony of color, texture and form." {excerpt from artist's statement, July 2002}

"He builds works not unlike a rodent collecting shiney items for the visceral pleasure of the optical nerve!" Anon

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