With a visual dialogue established initially by working illegally with spray paint, making large - scale murals and site - specific work without permission, the artist has developed a process of painting that crosses abstracted, ambient
fields of
colour and gesture with
traditional typography, vivid corrupted language and appropriated slogans.
Action painting is distinguished from the carefully preconceived work of the «abstract imagists» and «
colour -
field» painters, which constitutes the other major direction implicit in Abstract Expressionism and resembles Action painting only in its absolute devotion to unfettered personal expression free of all
traditional aesthetic and social values.