Medium as a Genre?

Contemporary painter Albert Oehlen’s work explores the medium as a genre: Albert Oehlen’s oeuvre is a testament to the innate freedom of the creative act. Through expressionist brushwork, surrealist methodology, and self-conscious amateurism he engages with the history of abstract painting, pushing the basic components of abstraction to new extremes.(Gagosian) Oehlen’s practice ranges from abstraction to representation through a vast variety of mediums. This openness and materials led technique is an approach that appeals to me as I intend to allow my work to reveal what is required not necessarily bound by the limitations of paint alone.

Gagosian. (n.d.). Albert Oehlen. Retrieved May 17, 2019, from gagosian.com: https://gagosian.com/artists/albert-oehlen/