Ben Ward - Interference Paintings
Ben Ward is the first artist to exhibit in Metro 5 Gallery’s new Work in Progress space, to be used exclusively for emerging artists.
In an increasingly competitive environment, Work in Progress offers a launching pad for developing artists, with the aim of encouraging the production of serious contemporary art.
INTERFERENCE PAINTINGS (the moiré effect) 16 May- 9 June 2007
"Interference patterning in its
most general terms is the means whereby patterns or messages generated
by events in a particular area of space and time, interact to generate
new patterns.
These new patterns (the moiré effect) represent the way in which
the separate events interrelate.
My painting investigates various modes
of abstraction including pattern formation, geometric composition, spatial
disorientation and structural ordering. The optical charge within these
paintings offer a metaphysical account of landscape; the horizon-line
has vanished, the pictorial elements of terrain are transformed and
what remains is a reference to the ethereal, through line, pattern and
colour.
The selection of colour and structural ordering in these paintings are
drawn from the natural world, and condensed into a reduced balance of
colour and value of moiré."
Ben Ward, 2007