ARTIST STATEMENT
Years ago I rediscovered a book from my childhood. A book that had been read to me hundreds of times.
As I turned the pages looking at the words and images, I remembered so clearly an illustration that I could not find anywhere in the book. I was so certain of this image, but, in the end, it only resided in my mind.
I spent the afternoon drawing what I saw in my mind’s eye. It was my first step on my artistic journey inward. My first attempt in exploring this strange new world of my imagination.
The cognitive dissonance I experienced that day, the false memory of the phantom image, is now central to my work.
It started my exploration of how the unconscious mind cannibalizes and collages the images we see during our waking hours.
The images I create depict the human figure in a reductive manner. The abstraction takes the form of digital glitch errors embedded into the image. The glitch represents the moment where the conscious mind and unconscious mind create conflict and in that conflict something new, unexpected, and ephemeral emerges.
BIO
DREW RAGLAND (b. 1978) is an Indian American visual artist living and working in Los Angeles.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has studied figure drawing and painting under Karl Gnass and Glen Orbik.
