Alfonse Pagano

Lives and works in Ironbound Newark, NJ, USA

Artist statement

“If I think, everything is lost.” ~ Paul Cézanne “First I deconceptualize then I reconstruct.” its about that time that instinct and experience then takes over. As literature is expressed with a written vocabulary, art is expressed with a visual vocabulary. I draw and paint to tell a story of what I find visually appealing. Sometimes I am merely documenting a scene. On other occasions, I’m attempting to convey the feeling or emotion that scene evokes for me. Art remains as a strong contender of how we share our thoughts and ideas. Throughout history, art has survived the tidal wave of information, and remains an unpredictable source of imagination. It has the possibilities of changing one’s thoughts, opening new ideas. I have no grand illusions that art will create a revolution in the traditional sense, but have witnessed the powerful changes it can make in an individual THE PROCESS The actual process that goes into physically creating these works are a extraordinarily laborious sequences of events. The work itself developing naturally through sheer mistakes and repetition, I tend to work on many pieces at a time allowing one to influence the others, sometimes discovering new elements and sharing them throughout. The work often beginning with a three dimensional composition, which I then take a photograph of and that photograph is processed, adjusted and manipulated in Photoshop so it can be printed on rice paper then mounted on a canvas where I finish with graphite,...

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