By Aaron Burleson
Acrylic on canvas
26” x 40”
“I often find myself at the onset of a painting wanting to break formal standards and use flat coloring to illustrate a scene in a more crude way. However, at one point or another, my mind gets in its own way and more detailed rendering comes into play. Somehow, in this work I was able to restrain the impulse for naturalism and allow a more expressive composition to come through. This painting is both a serious dedication to the generations of martyred homosexuals before me, and a darkly humorous reminder to my contemporary community of the occasionally-forgotten social position reserved for sexual deviants.” - Aaron Burleson
By Aaron Burleson
Acrylic on canvas
26” x 40”
“I often find myself at the onset of a painting wanting to break formal standards and use flat coloring to illustrate a scene in a more crude way. However, at one point or another, my mind gets in its own way and more detailed rendering comes into play. Somehow, in this work I was able to restrain the impulse for naturalism and allow a more expressive composition to come through. This painting is both a serious dedication to the generations of martyred homosexuals before me, and a darkly humorous reminder to my contemporary community of the occasionally-forgotten social position reserved for sexual deviants.” - Aaron Burleson