Gregory Klassen invites the viewer to contemplate his paintings as a world known in terms of natural laws and the elemental properties of organic and inorganic forms. The dynamic qualities of Klassen’s paintings are based on a contrasts between the fluidity of his forms, suggesting the flux of time, while the physical materiality infers the temporal.
"Evaporation is deposit by sublimation; water turns into a gas, leaving behind a solid. The image is both artifice and artifact. Removing all familiar frames of reference is my attempt to reconcile interior and exterior topographies in such a way as to render a more habitable environment—a place where detritus spawns living organisms, a place where evolution runs in reverse, returning us to our elemental beginnings." - Gregory Klassen
William Nichols
