Geoff Diego Litherland

Biography

Residing in multiple Latin American and European countries raises awareness of the arbitrariness of cultural heritage and identity. Responding to such a nomadic existence with its multifarious ideologies requires an unforgiving medium were the imperfections of reality cannot be glossed over.

The primacy of paint and its ability to create visibly contrasting layers still allows for both a sense of the history of the medium and its genial denial. It is at the point at which the new collides with and conceals the old that something is revealed: bright, thickly brushed paint sits roughly atop of dark and scumbled marks puncturing their pretensions.

I regard everything in these paintings as absolutely and unequivocally necessary, especially the sense of conflict.