Spencer KALL

Collage
Dry Media
Painting
Printmaking
exhibitions
About
Artwork description

My recent work has been about using color, shape and line to resolve aesthetic qualities, often depicting the figure in space. The literal depictions in my work rarely have heavy importance as they are mostly used as tools to resolve the formal inquiries in the format. This puts a significant weight on the objects depicted when they do have a narrative or emotional importance. As a printmaker and painter, I’ve ventured through many avenues to get to these results; Through wet and dry mediums as well as abstract collage.

I have finally begun to break through these moments of doubt and struggle that restrict me in the process of making the work. I find that I do my best work when my hands feel liberated and I can connect to the page through instances of intense frustration and grief. I am then able to take these liberating moments and reign them into arrangements that I have the luxury of displaying. For this reason, I often notice that I am comparing myself to a peasant in a feudal society, scouring for bread. Only at the end of a rare day—few and far between—I find myself king.

My recent work has been about using color, shape and line to resolve aesthetic qualities, often depicting the figure in space. The literal depictions in my work rarely have heavy importance as they are mostly used as tools to resolve the formal inquiries in the format. As a printmaker and painter, I’ve ventured through many avenues to get to these results; Through wet and dry mediums as well as abstract collage. I have finally begun to break through these moments of doubt and struggle that restrict me in the process of making the work. I find that I do my best work when my hands feel liberated and I can connect to the page through instances of intense frustration and grief. I am then able to take these liberating moments and reign them into arrangements that I have the luxury of displaying. For this reason, I often notice that I am comparing myself to a peasant in a feudal society, scouring for bread. Only at the end of a rare day—few and far between—I find myself king.