Mishcka’s Art Statement

I had been a realist from the beginning, but now, having studied with Josh Goldberg starting in 2007, I paint abstract expressionist art, mostly in acrylic.  This change was motivated by the need to express myself on a deeper level.  I haven’t looked back.

I paint the physical universe abstracted, but also non-objectively.  Both are unplanned and spontaneous.  Sometimes the painting just falls off the end of the brush, so to speak, but other times the painting develops in layers, going deeper over time.  It’s an interesting process.  If I can relinquish my hold on the outcome of the painting it feels like it paints itself.  When I can accomplish that the result often surprises me by reflecting an inner state of which I was not aware, but upon reflection depicts a truth.  It feels like it answers the question I didn’t know I asked.  Sometimes the painting arrives accompanied by a poem. 

My inspirations through the years have been, among others:  Giotto, William Blake,  Arthur Dove, Howard Hodgkin and of course, Josh Goldberg.

Also inspirational is the ancient Buddhist song called The Seven Thunderbolt Phrases.  My favorite is the 5^th phrase which translates as:

The phenomenal universe radiates as the fringe of luminous experience

I think that is the state in which great art is created.