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Greg Potter Artist’s Statement For a painting (or sculpture, or photo, etc.) to transform from object to art, creator and viewer must connect. Creators unable to connect with viewers become narcissists. Disconnected from creators, viewers may feel alienated and walk away.
Connecting does not mean that creators pander mindlessly to the imagined passions of the public. Quite the opposite: a creator who makes thoughtful, soulful work will invariably connect with some place, somewhere inside a thoughtful, soulful viewer. There are no geniuses – only well-matched visionaries on the creator/viewer continuum.
Viewers, by and large, want to connect. Finding and owning art is about infinitely more than filling up that space above the sofa. It is about sharing space with a visual slice of harmony. It is about feeling galvanized in ways large and small to enrich and revel in this world.
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I am drawn to whimsy and irony; the interplay of subjects not usually seen together or the isolation of subjects normally seen in a larger context. This dynamic offers conflict and strives to encourage visual and spiritual exploration toward possible resolutions within the individual viewer. My work attempts to glimpse the magic in the mundane, to make intimate that which appears solitary. I propose relationships set in environments given sufficient space for epiphanies to breathe.
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Greg Potter
Contemporary Paintings
Sherman Oaks California
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