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Greg Dunham
Portraits of Color and Shapes
Artist Statement
These three paintings are the first of a three triptych series. They are a response to present global events, election campaigns, Covid19 and Black Lives Matter. I remembered some microscopic black and white portraits of wasps I saw years ago. It was like a yearbook page but they were wasps. I was so struck that each individual wasp had its unique individuality, its wasps-ness and its own personality. Each painting represents a human individual. The different color shapes represent the person’s different unique individual characteristics. The central light rectangle represents the commonality that we share, our basic humanity. Instead of seeing and treating each other as part of a demographic group, as we assume all wasps are the same, I hope we can connect with our common humanity inside ourselves and use it to communicate with each other in these times.

Greg Dunham

gregedunham@gmail.com