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 language to conjure miracles. His process of frottage is deductive, and is used to reveal elements 'just beneath' the surface. The scratc
