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“In my art, I am concerned with the materiality and the processes of painting insofar as they perform as a metaphor for idea and emotion and as the sublimation of content.”
“My paintings are about the sensory experience of abstract principles whether I am painting pure abstractions or portraits.
I want the viewer to be as intimately involved as possible with the paintings so that the viewer’s eye feels compelled to return to the images I create, over and again, never completely satisfied that is has been able to accommodate all that it sees - to create a fascinated involvement with the work on the part of the viewer.
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Thus my art is made for an insistent viewing eye, one not simply content to gloss over or to re-create the processes involved in their creation, but more importantly to achieve a heightened sense of the business of seeing: The eye sees itself in the act of seeing.
At that level of exchange the viewer and the artist can share a similar experience of the art itself so that the abstraction in my art can become a bridge rather than a barrier, to an understanding of abstract art.”
- Donald Andrus
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