Artist Statement

Sherwin Ovid works in painting and multiple mediums to create visual works that explores the interface between the built and natural world. He investigates different approaches to spatial organization using a combination of handmade and digitally collaged forms. Pigment, resin, bubbles, and dirt are but a few of the materials that he accumulates on the surface while constructing the spatial environment of the work. These materials hold actual significance and illuminates conceptual ideas of fluid dynamics, migration, hybridity and visibility.

Partial glimpses of the pictorial are situated within an array of flat and modeled compositional elements and are often enveloped by formal systems of abstraction. Ovid often makes use of the language of rational geometric diagrams that are upended with improvisational gestures of slow drying liquid mediums producing cascading layers that are contentious to the rigid structures. Mixtures of contrasting iridescent color create their own vortexes and undulating waves of recurring visual patterns catapulting the viewer through different registers of visual scales.