Keith Pitts

ARTIST STATEMENT:

These works consist of blue powder pigment trapped beneath plexiglass. They are paintings that are in a continual state of becoming, never identical from display location to display location. As the paintings are transported from studio to venue and back, the powder pigment slowly works its way around the white ground surrounding the captured pigment. Each painting is constantly becoming, remaking itself over the duration of its lifetime. The moments of rest when the paintings are not in transition from one space to another are liminal moments in its duration. Each space the work is viewed in is a unique temporal moment. Subsequent times viewings occur finds that the pigment has shift ed allowing the paintings to become new. When one of these paintings is invited to a venue, a new painting is created allowing the process of becoming to begin again.