Boris Ostrerov
My thoughts and artistic process tend to push materials and logic
to their extremes, to the point where the material or the logic
reaches a surprising and absurd conclusion. Stacking, gravity,
and the confines or edges of the rectangle have been recurring
themes in my work for several years. I think of substrates (and
paintings in general) not just as windows but also as literal
supports and pedestals for the paint. In some pieces, I use
substrates referencing minimalist sculptures only as supports
to be decorated with shit-shaped oil paint. I squeeze paint
through cake-decorating bags because the process and resulting
extrusions are direct and imply urgent libidinal energy, excretion,
decoration, commodity, production, the body, and excess. I
present a painting language that is very honest to the technique
and process, but yields bizarre results. In the new body of work,
I introduce painting with brushes and explore the piece as both a
support and a window.
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