5 Inspiring Artists...

My artist inspirations were static for a long time.  However, in this past year or so, I have come to realize that there will be many inspirations, and some will only connect for me when I am in a particular creative head-space.  Given that basis, these are a few of my current inspirations.​

• Alberto Giacometti
  He is my latest inspiration.  What I connect with about him or his work is the aspect of it that can seem loose.  I am also appreciative of how it feels as though he is always investigating and exploring the fundamentals of a subject.
  I am inspired by the multiplicity of materials he has worked with.  Studying his work has opened up my comfort level in drawing.  My style of drawing is similar to what I see in his style.  I am not professing to be at that high a drawing level yet, however, style is similar.  Loose, and impressionistic.
  

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• Martin Puryear
  He is an ongoing inspiration for me.  I appreciate his style of minimalistic form.  Yet, according to my understanding of his messaging, he is still representing some very personal narrative.  

• Carrie Mae Weems
  She remains a major inspiration to me.  I was completely uninspired by her Kitchen series when I initially learned of it.  Then, somehow, a switch flipped and I understood something at an emotional level.  This caused me to make my first truly emotionally expressive self-portrait.
  Since that initial inspiration, I found a connection in that she does photography and video.  Those are two mediums that I love to work with.  Her style of video resonates with my inner-vision.
  

• Jeremy Biggers
  This Dallas based painter is a visual communications professional also. I enjoy how he makes his narrative feel pop-like, or vibrant in a way similar to advertising.  The vibrancy draws people in.  Yet, his works offer a significantly deeper narrative which must be discovered directly or possibly through your own critical analysis.
  The image below is a painting where the dots represent less than 10% of the image.  However, viewers tend to give that small portion of the image a disproportionate degree of attention.  This is not unlike how people of color feel society looks at them.  
  

• Tony Oursler
  Inspired by his freedom to use technology to express his aesthetic, and his style pulls me in to breaking away from being very realistic, and more toward surrealistic styling.