GUY MUNSCH

Painting and drawing have been the foundation of my art practice for a long time. Putting paint brush to canvas or pencil to paper and the unfolding of a visual idea have always felt like the best way I can express my thoughts, emotions and ideas. Yet, within my art practice utilizing techniques and materials that artists have used for centuries, I am keenly aware that my art is being created during one of society’s greatest and fastest technological upheavals.

Two dimensional static artwork, along with books, arguably should be dead by now, relegated to libraries, archives, and as part of historical collections. Until recently, I looked the other way from this dark possibility and continued to evolve my work as I have always done: figurative, landscape, representational, narrative symbolism; all using the art materials and processes that have felt so comfortable to my hand and eye. Too comfortable.

Based on the last few years of my work in a curatorial capacity I realized that the audience for art was changing dramatically, as was the functional means for creating art, and the acceptable forms that defined a completed work of art. My artwork evolved, subject matter became bolder, the tension between representation and abstraction became more dynamic, and the manner in which I created my art incorporated by-hand, digital painting skills and imaging technology. What has emerged is an energized, contemporary style that is more aligned with the world as it exists today.