DAVID H. KATZ – ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Websites:
Unconscious Illuminations/Altered States
My work consists of various categories of transformed images that exist on the border of dreams,straddling the uneasy interface between the conscious and the unconscious, sleep and half sleep, the real and the surreal, the world itself and the worlds within worlds.
Some of the imagery, which often exploits the aesthetic qualities of symmetry, has been termed kaleidoscopic; or, likened to stained glass; the Trance series has been characterized as psychedelic. These pieces are basically meant to be sources of pure ocular pleasure, feasts for the eye. Others, particularly some of the black and white images, employ elements of cognitive disassociation, irony and paradox, isolation and ambiguity.
The original materials may remain recognizable, or the original object or image may be transformed into something entirely new, unrecognizable, charged, mysterious, strange.
I strive to create artwork that stands alone as a visual object, yet overflows with reference and resonation; an object dense-packed with multiple meanings.
The images on this website consist of the following, each a series of fifteen available as either a postcard, greeting card, or a 13 x 19 digital print.
Domestic Unconscious – a series of images depicting the loneliness and grandeur of shelves, empty kitchens, showrooms, smoke, fences.
Fleurs – collages derived from Polaroid images of lilies, irises, roses, and other flowers, with an emphasis on natural and unnatural symmetries.
Barriers & Gates – a series of related pieces also based on the infrastructures of retail commerce.
Trance – hypnotic pieces derived from random visual “static” generated by a faulty scanner.
I also paint large abstract watercolors and have created geometrically constrained black and white pen and ink pattern drawings, derived from grids, which are available to view by appointment, at my studio in Chinatown, New York City, New York.
Contact:
David
H. Katz
151
First Avenue #81
New
York, NY 10003
917-513-2875
Biographical
Information:
David H. Katz is an artist, photographer and writer working in New York City. His artwork has been published in Zeek Web magazine, and exhibited at Makor Gallery, and Diamonds and Oranges Gallery in New York. His work also appears on his website ZtakArchives.com, as well as a number of other on-line galleries.
He has also written for a wide
variety of publications, including The New Statesman, High Times, TANK, The
Villager, The Portable Lower East Side, Leg World, Rap Express and Jewish
Quarterly. His memoir, The Father Fades, appeared in Transformation, A Journal
of Literature, Ideas and the Arts, Spring, 2005.
