In May 2003, Will Patlove exhibited a series of paintings utilizing a substructure within his stretcher frames in conjunction with jarring color field relationships to create a surprising perceptual experience.

Statement with exhibit:

My desire as an artist is to make apparent those qualities in the world that I see and interest me. Our everyday physical world is filled with visual situations that I find more dynamic than I have ever created as an artist. While this has at times been a dilemma for me, it has also provided an unlimited supply of inspiration.

My work is and always has been about paring things down and removing the excess. I have remained in the format of painting, but have begun to realize more clearly that the real medium I am working with is light.

My paintings interact with surrounding light and respond to subtle environmental shifts as well as changes in the viewers visual orientation to the work. They serve as tools, pointing out aspects of light and aspects of the way we see.

I make paintings because I like to look at them. I like how I feel when I look at them. My attempt as an artist is to highlight qualities that are felt, rather than understood intellectually. Art is about perception and experience. It is ones awareness and experience that constitute the actual �art act�. What one feels, in the presence of what we call art, is at the center of the entire process. This involves a letting go of intellectual thought and an opening up to a pure state of feeling.

Will's invitation shows the subtleties of a painting rising from its stretcher

 

Will at the opening

 

Will's work