spence munsinger
artist & painter
I was describing, out loud, the process of applying paint to canvas. In the process of working to explain it, I found some insights. I use photographs as a synthesis for an image, for the starting place for space in the painting, for color reference, to see what colors would be, where light moves, how [...]
A painting is very different from a photograph. I’ve read artists complaining that the images of their work don’t impact in the same way as the original painting. Nature of the medium. A photograph is a different view of the work. I take promotional and documentary photographs on film of pieces as I complete [...]
—spence
I am an expatriate Southern Californian. How I look at light. My conception of space and perspective. Color and form, translated into paint on canvas, and from that to plane and three dimensional space implied on two dimensions. All of this is sourced from this sense of being elsewhere. I learned to see in [...]
About SUNSETS…sunset series (paintings)
About SUNSETS…sunset series (paintings)
New work, Sunset series #3, 4th Street Del Mar: Sunset Series — spence
