William Donovan
My objective is the personal landscape as subject. My work is driven by personal
experiences. I utilize loss, lust, isolation, religion, suicide and AIDS to
create an emotional landscape that explores memories as its terrain. These themes
are usually suggested through the form or gesture of the human figure. Recent
work explores the representation of these ideas through the symbolic presence
of insects, birds of prey and also utilitarian images such as eye charts, fingerprints,
and crossword puzzles.
Unorthodox materials such as rubber, poured enamel, reflective glass and crematory ash conspire with intuition (and these memories) to unveil the content – a landscape that continually expands through a combination of method, intuition, and medium to elicit a work that operates on many levels: metaphorically and conceptually – as well as personally – to blur the boundaries between painting, drawing and installation.