Christian Schumann's Boreal Jelly Frill

This post features details (ie, sections) of larger works by Christian Schumann.
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Christian Schumann, Under Silent Stars, 2008, detail

From a 2008 interview with the artist:

A few years ago I became totally uninterested in images. Maybe it was seeing one too many paintings like my own with stuff like cartoon eyes and text and the rest. It all became too knowable and in a way, senseless. At that point I began to make paintings using no images but with the same amount of brush strokes. They are paintings of painting, mark by mark.

Slowly, after realizing this shift from an ugly external culture to an abstract, natural form I have gained a new appreciation for human imagination and the idiosyncratic individual, it's relationship to nature and the possibility that our imagination is all we have to fix the horrors that remain ahead of us.

For me, I guess I shall remain childish and see painting and art as the symbol of what we are capable of -- and the more unknowably weird our art is then so much the better and whether it's cartoony or abstract or figurative or minimal, it remains human.