Archil Pichkhadze

 First Time Art Party Participant

Carillon Beach

Artist’s Website

www.archilpichkhadze.com

Artist’s Statement

I am in love with the visual world. For me, the most important part of making a painting is the act of looking.

Careful observation leads to sustained moments of clarity.  In these moments I can move beyond preconceptions, experiencing all things mundane as magical.

Every painting presents me with the task of balancing it’s many elements.  Much like lines in a poem, in order for the whole to succeed, the parts of the painting have to support and play off of each other.  I want each painting to hold the viewers gaze, let him or her enter and wonder around a bit, making their own personal connections and discoveries along the way.

In my most recent work the implied narratives have floated much closer to the surface. These images attempt to balance the visual and emotional complexities found at the borders of observational realism, fading memories and lost dreams.  In the current work, I further explore these ideas, believing they will lead to enigmatic paintings with a presence of their own.