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Portrait with Apparition Oil 16" x 20"

The Absurd Realm of John Wotipka

(quotes by the artist)

I admire the absurd—the paradoxical element that reveals the ambivalent, manic-depressive nature of life.

 

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Emerging Unnatural    Oil     18" x 14"

My imagery is a reflection of my thought process.

 

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Coil    Oil     16" x 20"

Through painting I arbitrarily capture and record the flow of mental images.

 

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Absurd Realm    Oil     22" x 34"

My ideas come from hard conscious reality, (tenuous relationships, overcrowding, involuntary interdependence, life in flux, loss of self) where contradictions exist that can be integrated with irrational thoughts, the dream-state, the subconscious.

 

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Morph-amalgam    Oil     14" x 11"

johnwotipka@yahoo.com


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