Alex Kanevsky part II

What separates art from experience?  It seems like a simple question, however there are resulting complications.  It is a question that is too broad for a simple investigation.  If experience is fundamental to perceiving reality, then art is a form of perceiving that experience.  Basically, the more complicated it gets as you conceptualize art you begin to realize that the most essential parts are missing.  There is an emptiness that results from such inquiry.  You lose the innocence of that experience to words or other indirect forms of communication, unconsciously creating a model from a conceptual analysis by which judgments on art and experience in general are made.  I will stop here before I lose sight of the point.

So, the painting.  A wave is essentially the superficial structure of a bigger more complicated series of events.  I do not know the science behind any of this, but more simply, a wave is what we see or directly experience.  So, on the surface these paintings seem to be pretty straight forward.  Kanevsky tends to work with washes and layers that evolve into a subject over repeated sessions.  By painting waves he finds a parallel between the process he uses and the subject.  The waves are everchanging, but they are always waves, repeating simliar characteristics that represent and reaffirm its existence.  When Kanevsky paints a series of waves throughout a number of sessions, he is painting the experience of waves and the general concept of such a thing from the variety of his observations.  It is a compelling notion, that a wave cannot be objectified into static singular entity because the wave itself is a superficial part of a larger concept.  By doing this type of painting he is highlighting the transcendent aspects of nature.  When this is realized it is easy to see that the waves can metaphorically represent any subject, or that this is just a painting of water crashing down towards a nondescript shore line.