James Siena
Distorted Overlapping Grids
2004-2005
Enamel on aluminium
James Siena
Coffered Divided Sagging Grid
2005
Enamel on aluminium
James Siena
Boustrophedonic Recursive Combs
2004
Enamel on aluminium
Siena is a contemporary painter whose work is He is also very influenced by painter/sculptor Sol LeWitt (remember him from the first post on this blog? his work was posted again later on the blog). LeWitt's work is characterized as being coldly intellectual. He was known for writing out recipe cards for his work, then employing other artists to visually express his ideas from the written instructions. Siena by contrast is more romantic in his ideas about painting, rendering everything himself by hand. Like LeWitt, he also relies on 'recipes' for his work. He limits himself to geometries, and practices 'all-over painting'. This was a term invented by Jackson Pollock to describe the technique of completely covering a canvas and creating compositional equality by not favoring any part of the image over any other part. All-over painting was revolutionary in western art, which typically revolves around visual hierarchies such as clear focal points.
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