Art: Jeff Depner

Another stunning look at this months favorite color, pink, used in art.

Jeff Depner is a Canadian artist who undertakes a formal analysis of the interrelationship between form, color and space. His work has an element of formal "architectural" style using flat, muted colors and geometric forms and linear structures. But also highlights the fact that it is indeed "art" with an expressive, clearly "hand made" style with paint drippings, scratches, and traces of brush stroke.

The artwork pictured above is "Fitness" (2009).

A statement from Depner on his work:

"My work explores compositional structure through the relationship between colors. Elements from high and low visual culture are dismantled and reconstructed. These forms are created through cause and effect, wherein each layer interacts with it’s predecessor, to create a functioning system of parts.

Constructed to pit architectonic organization against the organic, a dialogue between geometric order and cellular growth emerges to create a language in constant flux.

As a whole, these units combine to create a sort of ‘abstract sign” operating separately from speech and writing patterns, with the intention of seizing the viewer on an unconscious or automatic level."