Flotsam and jetsam monotypes in the “new casualism” genre at Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown

My new body of work, a series entitled “flotsam and jetsam” will be on display at Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown along with works by plein air painter Mary Giammarino in late fall 2024. I embrace the ideas of the “new casualism” movement described in this essay by The Brooklyn Rail. I accept and embrace messy edges, smudgy circles, unexpected droplets and a bit of chaos. In this essay, Sharon L. Butler remarks of the new casualists that “there is a studied, passive-aggressive incompleteness to much of the most interesting abstract work that painters are making today. But the subversion of closure isn’t their only priority. They also harbor a broader concern with multiple forms of imperfection: not merely what is unfinished but also the off-kilter, the overtly offhand, the not-quite-right. The idea is to cast aside the neat but rigid fundamentals learned in art school and embrace everything that seems to lend itself to visual intrigue—including failure.” To see more of my work in this vein at the gallery, click here!