Julian Hoeber
Region: Pacific Coast
My work explores the structural and biomorphic, the
mathematical and intuitive. My largest body of paintings is
titled Execution Changes. Here I aim to reconcile contradictions
between conceptual art, geometric abstraction, and the aesthetic
tropes of expressionistic painting. Op art and the conceptual
strategies of the ‘60s and ’70s (such as the work of Sol LeWitt)
provide a strategic point of departure in my investigation of
irregularities within a given set of formal operations. I have
devised a mathematical system to create paintings, and I then
play in the system’s gaps. I push the limits of my system by
altering the way it is executed to see if it will break apart or hold
together. The results of this inquiry are a series of geometric
paintings overtaken by the encrusted, fleshy surfaces of abstract
expressionism.