Phillip McCrum
I am a multidisciplinary artist. My practice has included painting, installation, multi –media, digital, and video projects. My interest in art making revolves around material and construction as an entry point or viewing device towards the deciphering of sub textual content. Material is represented by a variety of media, such as paint, found object installation, and other forms. The aesthetic acts for me as polemic in that the anti-aesthetes of my work is in reference to my understanding of the hierarchical ideas of beauty and my relationship to an aesthetic of working class or ‘other’ notions of beauty/value. This content ranges from the layering of meaning as it is contained and contextualized by an ‘artwork’. I mean by that the experience the viewing has on the viewer and the culpability the viewer has to the object and the space the object inhabits, materially as well as theoretically. It, my work, hopefully proposes systems that are deconstructed with the execution of the artwork, the formal aesthetic and logic dissolves into a tropic miasmic swamp. A catachresis. In other words it’s pretty funny stuff!
