The visual is incredibly physical for me. It’s weight, presence, and rhythms, all intermingle and combine as factual events to be considered and felt. Where distance and proximity is an embodiment of pressure and gravity, where form is presented as mass, and color is viewed as passages of physical experiences, the synchronized layering of all these visual pillars power much of my efforts. 

 The embrace of oddity and its' openness to questioning has a visual richness that speaks to me as well. Animated, stumbling, unstable, weights shift, often generating unbalanced movements where every component wrestles with the everyday in a formal visual language that’s seems fitting for these often strange and dire times. 

 Overly bright and saturated, these paintings also drink in the  thick opaque implosive color that easily shoots backwards into the wall as much as it explodes off the wall. Here all positive and negative relationships are meant to change places in every glance. Color in my mind is physically dimensional and brutally deceptive. I’m particularly drawn to interplays of color that rhythmically glitch, pause, or reverse course. And as thickly layered flat edges meet and take on an almost embossed tailored like presence, the bright reversing saturated grids of the tints around them shift shift in and out of view as they themselves jump and stutter in place. A visual obstacle course almost where color and form can cohabitate, dance, and change places all on their own while still competing for you attention. In the end a place that is also an object, one that projects mystery, playfulness, and a sense of purpose.

                                              Mike Stack 2025