For Geoffrey Hunter, the process of painting is archeological. This is
not to say that the work does not fit a modern landscape. These works
are a conglomeration of mistakes, erasures and forgotten gestures. The
paintings are meant to have illusionary weight. As an archeologist, Mr.
Hunter repeats a pattern of shapes and images in order to find the ruptures
within. In archeology the faze often backward, the question of innovation
is relative to both culture and loss. These paintings work within the
boundary between progression and recovery, repetition and difference,
loss and discovery. Hunter alternatively builds then scrapes away the
surface of these works to reveal the archeological intent of painting,
not as object or artifact, but a search for the possibility of art.
The tree is regarded as the “nerve ending” of the planet with the leaf
as it's most fragile and ephemeral element. The repetition of the leaf
motif underscores its importance as an icon of the natural world. In repainting
the leaf as a motif the artist invites the viewer to look at the individual
painting as well as examine the importance of the grid.
Autumn Gardner VII & VIII
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