Art Sokoloff
As a multidisciplinary artist, my primary goal is to create systems centered around structure-based abstraction.
My current work is being made around the influence of rules applied in the crafting of game-like experiences. Taking on both the role of the rule-setter and the participant, I am involved in the process of making "situations" (strict conditions with clear rules) and their subsequent resolutions. “Regularities” (including “Synophones”) as well as “Sequence mapping” investigate the theme of instructions and visual patterns. They are individually hand stamped/drawn, in a time-consuming, laborious repetition. Using simple shapes, I’m creating orders, which are easily ruined by just one mistake, and as easily changed by just one alteration in the instruction. Using bold figures and regulated interactions related to them, such as multiplications and shift, rotation and sequencing - I aim to reflect on rule-based conceptual art. Working in the “task-execution” mode, decision making is carried out long before the physical making. Consciously implementing pattern aesthetic, I'm trying to blur the line between generality and particularity in my visual language.
RP CG
2020
Four colour screenprint on Hahnemuhle paper
55 x 75 cm
Untitled #2 (Antagonism)
2020
Woodcut on Japanese paper
53 x 43 cm
2 Clockwise, 2 Counterclockwise 2020
Stamps on paper
50 x 40 cm