What is abstraction? Abstraction is a thinking and/or a pushing of reality, interior and exterior, to the Nth degree, where all figuration and concepts become indistinct, blurred, mosaic in nature. Pure abstraction is where all differentiations cease and a totality of colors, i.e. a gray area and/or mosaic, is created capable of multiple meanings and interpretations. This is the essence of pure abstraction painting. The aim, I’ve set out through abstraction is to influence the way people see and think about art and what abstract art consists of.  This is a matter of artistic reconfiguration and that the creation of a new form of abstraction. This new evolutionary art-form is critical abstraction.

               The primary critique of 99% of all contemporary pure abstraction painting in the last 60 years, i.e. abstract-expressionisms, is that its images and its titles are merely decorative artifice & self-indulgent existentialist non-sense, devoid of meaning, devoid of social or educational elements that speak to this contemporary age. Sixty years after its initial splash, today's abstract-expressionism and neo-abstract-expressionists are exercising an obsolete useless lexicon that is in many ways redundant and incapable of describing anything substantial and relevant to its viewer's existence in this post-industrial age. Subsequently, Color-Realism, or specifically critical abstraction, is an evolutionary and revolutionary development of the Ab-Ex corpse, a new lexical interpretation of pure abstraction, capitalizing on its multi-dimensionalism by utilizing its radical subjectivity to say something meaningful and relevant about contemporary society, which speaks not immaterial nonsense but pragmatic material facts about current sociological, philosophical, economic and human condition etc. As a result, through my artistic practice, i.e. the medium of oil painting, I am reconfiguring the dominant ideas on abstract art and abstraction.

                 An initial breakthrough occurred in 2009 with the publication of my book: Color-Realism, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada for its library. Only 3 books were ever made as the book was designed to negate capitalist-commodification and the capitalist system by remaining a unique rarity, a unique object/artifact. The book’s main thesis is that color is as real as reality gets. Color is the basic language upon which all other languages develop. And it is through pure abstraction painting that this fundamental language of color is put into motion and communicated, as the basic concern in pure abstraction painting is communication, i.e. using color and how color communicates to effectively doing things with, both psychologically and physically. Without color there is no form, no concepts or senses as it is color, i.e. the division between colors, which allows basic concepts to develop. For example, one cannot think of a square without color, it is impossible to think of a color-less square, what this means is that color is a precondition to our ability as humans’ to think, our basic concepts of the world around us are based first and foremost on the concept of color and the divisions between color. And pure abstraction painting reminds us of this fact.                                      

                 In sum, my artistic practice aims to revolutionize the way people see, think and relate to modern abstract painting and the central concepts of abstract art.  It has been said that “philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it” elaborating on this premise I state that “abstract art is the continuation of philosophy via other means. Abstract art is real actions that revolutionized conventional standards, specifically conventional practices and aesthetic standards through critical analysis, critical critique, creative re-interpretation and constructive innovation of outdated standardized art-forms and conventional ways of doing and seeing things”. Contemporary abstract art requires that an artist absorbs the fundamental principle ‘great art by any means necessary’ in his or her constitution if he or she wishes to construct a body of work that transcends and extrapolates the parameters of traditional aesthetic sensibilities, institutions and art practices. Contemporary abstract art is resistance and resilience to the status quo.