Gary Nusinow

The pursuit of beauty is inherent in all art making. Of course, one's definition of beauty is individual. In my painting I pursue the fusion of figurative and abstract imagery. That is where my notion of beauty lies, where familiar visual cues are reshaped and figurative expectations are thwarted. The process requires moving through uncharted space to uncover an alternate depiction of equilibrium. A quote from Juan Gris sums it up - "I try to give concrete form to what is abstract. I pass from the general to the particular, by which I mean that I take abstraction as my point of departure and the real fact as my point of arrival. I consider mathematics to be the architectural side of painting, the abstract side, and I want to humanize it. I compose with abstractions and I arrange them until the colors become objects."