While each was classically trained, they moved away
from traditional painting methods that involved the application of paint using a brush to a canvas placed upright on an easel.
In 2015, he curated «The Gaps Between Us» and «Color Against Color,» two exhibitions that illustrated the value
of traditional painting methods while simultaneously showing the value of breaching those boundaries.
Yet when one encounters a painting with no paint, the question still arises, why would an individual — assuming that individual has an affinity for painting itself —
abandon traditional painting methods and assume the more sculptural disciplines of casting, carving or modeling?
While each was classically trained, all three moved away
from traditional painting methods that involved the application of paint using a brush to a canvas placed upright on an easel.
Unlike Lord's earlier work — like the Angry Bird Paintings series or Documental exhibition at Dem Passwords — that painstakingly translates digital images to canvas, this new approach for Safeworld is «devoid
of traditional painting methods; of perspective, vanishing point, colour and texture».
They «broke free» from
traditional painting methods (like keeping the canvas on an easel, or painting with traditional tools like brushes).
She creates these paintings with a combination of computer colour analysis and
traditional painting methods, a process that merges the acts of both construction and deconstruction.
However, working in contrast to
traditional painting methods, Wadden's compositions are determined only during the final stages of preparation, and the use of light and dark create a stark positive and negative spaces, which optically shift from foreground to background.