Spotlight Artist

Kaden Van de Loo

Midwest
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Apollo

Abstract painting with red background, multicolored shapes, lines, and grids.

oil on canvas

Skate

Abstract painting with scribbled colorful ovals on teal background and scattered black dots.

oil on canvas

Butterfly

Abstract painting with a yellow swirl center on a mauve background, shapes and colorful dabs around.

oil on canvas

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Artist Statement

 My paintings explore formal relationships through recurring geometric forms bound to a system of constraints. The reappearance of the same geometric forms across the body of work allows them to become familiar to the viewer, but their endless material manifestations and relationships mean constant reconsideration.

Forms exist in a flexible, single-colored space that they may sink into, emerge from, or sit on top of. Space ends at the surface’s edges, containing forms within those bounds and making each painting an isolated ecology within which forms materialize and disappear. Formal qualities and material handling amplify or obfuscate the forms’ legibility and complicate their presence within the compositional space.

Each form occupies an individualized locale, distinguished from the next and without overlapping. Their placement and relationships to each other (and the ground) create environments that allow viewers to consider the familiar and the unfamiliar, and ultimately how significance can emerge out of something inconclusive.

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