channing salazar
b. 1991, CA, USA
Red and green are the same. I am a color-blind painter, leaning into the metaphor of ambiguity in vision. My paintings center on visual slippage as we ascribe meaning to the world.
My work considers ocular aberration as a physiological metaphor for the subjective construction of meaning. Astigmatism, color blindness, and myopia are considered in the context of moiré, lossy compression, and glitch. In the surrealist tradition, my approach aspires to reveal the world rather than mirror it.
Borrowing from Ribera, Fusili, and Goya's black paintings, my aesthetic reflects the fear and confusion of not knowing.