Liza Dorsey
My practice relies on channeling a focused mindset, enabled by the athletic model of resistance training. This training is any exercise, usually repetitive in its implementation, that causes the muscles to contract against external resistance, typically with the expectation of increasing strength, tone, mass, performance, and/or endurance. This framework allows me to rely on my body intelligence to move within my paintings and combine it with particular forms of conditioning gained in my youth. I couple this with repetitious action and environmental resistance to position my studio as a sort of ‘training ground’. A space both hypothetical and actual, where I compete with myself to continually push against my definitional restraints and boundaries of painting.
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