Oliver Vernon

Vernon lives in a renovated loft in Bed-Stuy, where he paints and draws obsessively.

His work is a constantly flowing but constructive meditation on depth, mandalic design, and the mystic spunk that lends organic shapes their peculiar and sometimes alien sense of life. The fluttering ribbons and liquid rhizomes that often float through his evocative spaces are at once playful, probing, and profligate. He paints on different types of surfaces, working both with and against the grain of wood and canvas, sometimes combining (and recombining) panels to form larger works; sometimes he adds collage elements as well.

Everything serves to layer and invoke multiple dimensions: the dense graphic surfaces of graffiti art, seeking depth; loopy 3D splatters and orbs; abstract voids and plunging tunnels that suck you in like a SciFi tractor beam.