Herman Aguirre
The emotional and moral issues that surround the images
depicted in these paintings concern loss and death. Combining
the languages of representation and abstraction, I bring texture
to the depictive and affective aspects of an image. I use a variety
of techniques and materials to investigate charged subjects and
prompt a sense of the fragility of human existence.
The texture of these paintings is achieved through the thick
application of paint. The painting process becomes a confused,
frustrated, and overwhelmed accumulation of impasto, which not
only gives value to the image, but also allows for its proper burial.
It conveys both clarity and ambiguity, as the paint grotesquely
complicates the picture plane with its seductive yet distancing
materiality.

