Paul Loughney: Consequences of Competing Narratives - Artist Resume
Paul Loughney: Consequences of Competing Narratives Paul Loughney continues to compose collages in an intuitive process, attempting to make images a bit like visual hallucinations, a kind of delirium, all the while pursuing that intimate space between viewer and image, and creating an experience that rewards slow looking. His process includes collage, drawing, painting - and appropriation. Loughney's new series of collages exist s in the space between abstraction and figuration, anthropology and storytelling : w here belief mingles with magical thinking. For the first time, text and frottage are introduced . Disjointed letters are compressed into spheres as graphic as they are ambiguous. Fractured words seem to act as a metaphor for incomplete thought s, an inability to fully articulate reality, and the failure of inept ...
