Spotlight Artist

Nicholas Kashian

Midwest
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

Ten:

React to as many visual stimuli as possible

React to those stimuli in the most appropriate way possible

Images are independent of ownership

Relics from the past can serve as ghosts for the future

Move towards concept- not from it

Aesthetic choice dictates intellectual directions

Elaborate on the graphic and narrative possibilities inherent in the photographic image

Exploit mechanical exactness/ exploit natural inexactness- mix for psychological implications

The reproduction of artwork has surpassed the potency of the artwork itself- breakup with this concept and then have makeup sex with it- repeat ad nauseam

Visual schizophrenia does not imply artistic death.

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