Gallery Artists

Charles Goss

Statement Of Focus

I focus on bumps on the wall, finding life in a box, your mothers Bauhaus, overworking the space, reading between the lines, 2-D or not 2-D, learning my own rhythm, polyphonies in 11/4 time, holes in the road, more bumps on the wall, misplaced modifiers, palatial space, doubling the exposure, eyesight and earshot, secrets revealed, dotting the T and crossing the street, being clear about abstraction, daring to screw up, carnal knowledge, embracing the mistakes, not getting it all in one piece...Um...selling out, catching up, falling behind, facing death, one foot in the sandbox and one in the shrine, action/reaction, response, responsibility, not holding back, dysphasia, dyspepsia, dyslexia, lysdexia, truth to materials, true voices, desires, habits, addictions, worst headaches, not thinking-just doing, method painting, risking it all, TV, the inside of your mouth, discovery, following the tryst, possessing fear and doubt, dog farts and back streets, the economy of clarity, the lushness of obscurity, the union of opposites, fantasy, curiosity, empty rooms, deprivation, boredom, logic, irony, humor, pain, joy, loss, pleasure, grief, history, ecstasy, activity-spawning ideas.........more activity and more activity, release, acceptance, rejection, from weakness to asset, camouflaging, mirroring, reverberating, technique taught-----art sought, lust, pride, envy, jealousy, sloth, suspension of disbelief, living in time, finding the loading zone, late for lunch, alpha waves, shock waves, talismans, fetishes, sports, food, cooking, learning, eating, watching, looking seeing.....density, a sense of the aggregate, evidence of life on other planets, TEXAS, a higher being, the back of the bus, the Blues, the source of the Nile, money, politics, Jazz, sex, duct tape, basic instincts, rear speat seakers, half lives, Ohms Law, Moh's hardness scale, absolute zero, the image not the f-stop, where the rage lives, going to the out of my mind, too late to make a long story short, love, telekinesis, band-aids, critical thinking, boat drinks, the journey not the destination, the Caribbean, contradiction, oxymorons, paradox, Para ducks, erasing the evidence and defacing the norm, the space………….

Focus is subject to change and re-arrangement without notice.