CODY ROUNDS

I began painting by learning the skills and techniques associated with traditional style landscape. I have used these skills as a set of rules that can be challenged, and in turn use them to explore and question the basic conventions of painting.

My latest works have emerged from an examination of the properties of painting and paint as a tactile material. I've created two-dimensional and three-dimensional works that explore this particular medium through texture, line and color. Realizing my fascination with the relationship that could exist between painting and sculpture, I begin to take painting off the canvas. In turn, I am currently creating sculptures solely from acrylic and latex paint to highlight different physical properties of the medium.

I also apply what I discover to my latest series of paintings. These are created with a unique application technique of piping straight-from-the-tube paint onto a canvas to create surface texture and relief. The use of saturated colors, eccentric shapes and intuitively placed lines create a non-representational study of visceral response.