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Artist's Statement
I see these paintings as dialectical, where forms and sequence-images re-project. In my works I employ ideas of displacement and visual migration. The works examine circumstances, such as the conflict between a character and its tone resulting in an illogical displacement or transplantation of the subject matter in the absence of control exercised by reason. My visual representation makeup derives from reshuffling of thoughts and sampling of circumstances in an attempt to amalgamate these into forms and figures that capture, usurp each other and create a new form of interaction. I attempt to create counter-images, and a world of fictitious imagery. My works contain both, reaction and counter-reaction and an assortment of contradictions and irrationalities. The works exhibit a variety of coloristic expressions accompanied by locomotion and patterns of repetition. There is interplay between the muscular coloristic tonality and frangible carved dripping lineatures. The counteracting figures assume contrast of colors and changing tempo. The paintings eventually present more questions than answers about the cultural processes of migration and belonging.
Almost all paintings in some way have a relation to the previous ones I've made, and have been employed as an extension of the preceding. My thought itinerary often starts from the matter and not an idea as I am trying to avoid having any specific theory as a direct and implicit source of the paintings. I often leave specific holes in the narrative of my works to allow the viewer an appropriate space to contemplate and examine on their own, while still being subtly manipulated by the scenario.
Leonard Kogan has had solo shows in New York City and Europe. He lives and works in New York, NY.
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