Artist Statement

My art is about exploration, to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality, allowing my intuition and process to take the lead. I seek to build something from nothing using the current environment and my intuition to express what is within myself. Within the process symbols and images reveal themselves. I construct and deconstruct until I unravel an abstract "portrait of the moment." I paint, build, and layer, letting the painting happen while I follow it. With this approach, I hope to give the work a presence that will grip rather than release the viewer after only a glance. Thus, my paintings should catch the viewer in a web of revealing imagery and emotion, leaving each with his or her own idea of what they have seen, felt, and thought.

Aaron Ligon