Alex Puryear, Chicago
Member Since November 2010
Artist Statement My work tends to focus on dream analysis and surreal interpretations of my thoughts, feelings, and experiences. There’s also a constant contention between fluid and concrete, worldly and ethereal, austere and indulgent in my paintings. I feel by melding a multitude of thoughts and emotions, it prevents my work from becoming stagnant and instead, lush with vitality.
Despite each of my pieces being uniquely personal, I rarely give any of them titles. I like the viewers to give each piece a story of their own, to draw their own meaning into it.
For me, art was never just a hobby. Art is my life, my vice, my destiny. Art is who I am.