Statement

Candace Nycz's paintings manipulate a version of the primary color palette as well as repetitive painterly moves in order to allow knowable variations that create rapid movement, illusion and vibration. Nycz has garnered an interest in the discordant, punk music, auditory and visual loudness that disrupts the viewer into seeing her work as something unfamiliar. The raw dryness of her paint lends itself to an intentional lack of polish, reflecting back to her interests as well as allowing the materiality to remain part of the visceral experience. She sees her painting as something outside of itself, a movement to unbuckle the hold class has on art as well as shaking the steady ground abstraction has retained as commodifiable. Nycz's work may not be instantly revered as visually attractive, but that is beside the point, her paintings are an experience, moments in time that continually unfold. Pretty has no place here.