Greg Hart Art

Greg Hart is...very incognito on the internet...I had a hard time finding any background on him. However, there's a nice description of what he was going for with this series. In these paintings, he's trying to depict the search for personal identity through family history. We look at old family photos and put our own meaning on them, but their real meaning is faded, blurred, distorted, and much of our family history consists of big blank spaces. Hart is trying to capture the lost feeling. Here's a quote from his site (link listed below): "The repetitive coiled shapes in the paintings represent familial mazes – broken and imperfect. These are tarnished memories brightened, distorted, and reinvented." His use of negative space speaks to the idea of blank spaces in our histories and memories, and that coupled with the swirling, color-blocked stroke he uses serve to unify this series.

Here's his site to see more of his images.
http://greg-hart.com/section/182727.html