Depth of Field: Pete Kohut

Event Description

This body of work comes from the artist’s interest in exploring the structure of looking. It questions what it means to look at images in today’s chaotic, consumer-driven visual environment. One strategy employed is to reduce the elements of the paintings to cut through the noise of everyday imagery. Marks are used as building blocks; repeating them to create a weave, net, or field of positive and negative information. This repetitive process creates an image that denies hierarchy (narrative) or inspiration (the grand gesture). It emphasizes labour (process) and touch (the artist’s hand).