Justin Emmanuel Dumas — Fountainhead

Pittsburgh, PA

January 19 - February 28 , 2021

BIO

Born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, pursuing origin as destination, rather than a starting point.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am entirely concerned with the forces of syntropy and coincidental form. These moments of alignment are not yielded by will and intention alone, but an undercurrent of civil activity; erosion, repair, concurrence and objection. Within the common-space, human activity dissolves its own material pragmatism and engages in the rebuilding process peripherally. By understanding the surface as narrative, marks, abrasions, wounds, and repairs become gesture. The combined presence of these gestures manifest as the spectral evidence of human agency. These final painting-shaped objects, which endlessly approach and depart from completion, present a moment for re-collection and the excavation of public memory. Though fleeting, what they offer balances on the threshold of the sacred and mundane.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: justinemmanuel.works/

Instagram: @justin.emmanuel