Gary Vlasic

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Experimenting with one’s own life is the most fundamental medium. Being an artist is not just about what happens in the studio. There is no separation between art making and the whole of life. The way you live. The people you choose to love and the way you love them. The generosity and gestures of your life. The size of the world you imagine for yourself and others. Your ability to influence the things you believe in. Your obsessions. Your vulnerabilities. Your failed attempts.

More than any other vocation, being an artist means always starting from nothing and trusting the blind spots of the unknown. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone and to hone creative obsessions to make a vision come to life. Starting from nothing, trusting the process, and knowing that the process includes failing over and over again regardless of the successes that may come as well.

My work begins with exploring that liminal space where ideas are first shaped. It includes sculpture, installation, mixed media, and performance.

I explore themes of consumption, decay, disembodiment, transformation, and desire. The foundation of my work begins with the deconstruction of found images or found objects and the splicing, cutting, and rearranging of these images that I create or steal from all medias. I incorporate batters of ink, graphite, paint, found objects, photographs, advertisements, and botanical themes.

The medium is merely the vehicle for creating what amounts to a self-portrait, an ongoing expression of my place in the world.

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