The Deadly Talkers

Todd Arsenault

Friday, October 5th, 2012- Sunday, October 28th, 2012

The Deadly Talkers represents a year of investigations in the processes of painting, drawing and some time based digital media. It is important for me to consider these processes collectively as visual dialog and conceptual exchange between them is significant. The studio is central to my practice; it is where fragments of daily experience are synthesized with the idiosyncrasies of individual process. Personal archives of old media merge with current media, constantly shaping and refining my visual language. Language is important. The mediums with which I work have specific aesthetic histories and established conventions. Certainly, these conventions can feel restrictive, even debilitating at times, but the possibilities they offer outweigh these moments of frustration. In a world saturated with information, painting and drawings are malleable languages that work to aggregate the disparities of our visual existence. These mediums/. The gray area between analog and digital is a place where unexpected flaws occur, and it is this transitional point, between two worlds, that yields the most compelling content.