Matt Connors (b. 1973, USA)
Yellowgreen, 2011

Suggestion of Connors as potentially pertinent to my practice came as a surprise. Apart from the element of abstraction there are not so many obvious formal qualities that would strike me as related. But I found some immediate appeal in Connors’ work, which points to mysterious ways of subjectivity. Can we somehow be expressing something similar in our distinctly different ways – yet similar enough for somebody to make an associative connection? Or is it just something random or superficial – as in “yeah, yeah, abstraction”?..

To establish some more articulate pertinence I picked this particular piece due to its somewhat unusual configuration for a painting – vertical arrangement of panels, one of them reaching the floor and being place at an angle to the wall. I have no clue if Connors “wanted to say something” in particular by that, but what interests me is forced shift in vantage point and pushing of conventional boundaries.