David Reed, Color Study. May 7th, 2012

Judy Millar, Untitled, 2002

                                             Judy Millar, 2009

                                             Untitled, 2009

                                             oil and acrylic on aluminium, 510 x 790 mm

Reed and Millar are two artists that I am becoming more and more interested in as I have started producing some very experimental and gestural works. I enjoy how my works have become random and unpredictable for both me as the artist when I make each one and for the viewer who gets to experience something new with each work and spot links and similarities of their own.

I also find it interesting how I can see certain gestures emerge in a number of my small experimental like works. I like to allow my creativity to take over and create new images influenced by both my surroundings and following my natural instinct which has been built around past experiences and memories.

I like how Reed and Millar's works have an experimental element to them and how their works don't feel too controlled and are simply showing the artists working with their chosen materials and working with the strengths of those materials to expose them in their simple form.

I am intetrested in possibly including these artists (maybe just Richard Reed) in my next assignment "Curate and Critique," along with Jonathan Lasker, Katherine Day's video of plastic hanging form a washing line, and maybe other artists shuch as Helen Calder whio are material based artists.