Jonathan Seliger

Rather than oil paint with all its historical and cultural associations Jonathan Seliger mostly uses acrylics, wax , and modelling paste. And yet… These three-dimensional objects are clearly related to the canvas surface as traditionally understood. We perceive their three-dimensionality while being distinctly aware that they have been shaped from a flat surface. And this is where he displays his artifice - and irony. His allusions are to the home-made, in his patient stitching and minute finishing, and to the everyday, in his iconography. Yet his forms are minimal and conceptually essential: they are abstractions warmed by humanity. (see biography)