The Periodic Table of Art Elements

Having spent countless hours in my studio and not venturing out much during to the pandemic, I had the time to look toward art history and visual culture as reference points in developing a new project.  Titled “The Periodic Table of Art Elements,” my intention was to breakdown and reconstruct an imagining of its various eras, trends, styles and individual artist works as neural networks, the manner by which information is decoded, interconnected, and made interdependent.  My goal here was to identify and then fuse the random and disparate visual languages I discovered throughout art history and then remake them in my own visual, pixelated vocabulary.  Much like the famed periodic table of chemical elements, my project, using a scientific approach, creates a logical display  and expressive presentation of art history’s most iconic works.  The result of which, is both alien and familiar as it engages audiences to see that ubiquitous history from a universal point-of-view.