Mark Reynolds

In any beautiful dance there’s an element of tension. How does a dancer play with gravity? How do motion and the stillness of equilibrium complement each other? And how does this movement acknowledge its prescribed space while also engaging with the space beyond it? For me, the space of a canvas is like a visual dance floor. If I’m successful, an infinity of possible combinations of shapes and colors can play within this space, and at the same time point to their way out of it. My hope is that these possibilities multiply and resonate as the paintings enter the bigger world. Their inherent tensions abound and make them paintings to look at with an open-ended intelligence.