David Sullivan

David Sullivan’s animated paintings collapse the macrocosm into the microcosm. They are a collision of the gestural brushstrokes of abstract painting with the realism of 3D computer graphics. In the animations, humidity melts reified objects into states of transition. Refineries become atoms become organs become tumors. Like some will-o-the-wisp along the Mississippi River, seen dimly through the heat, ambiguous objects drip in a slowly evolving lightshow. Chemical reactions, in time and space, of molecules and Spanish moss glow over petrochemical plants. The industrial plants, their emissions and affected organs dissolve into one.