Johnathan Leach

Artist’s Statement

My work reflects an architectural and iconographic landscape perceived from commercial cities and developing sprawl. Some of these works are far more abstract in nature due to the connection I have with the work. The landscapes that seem more directly representational are devoid of what we would normally consider natural surroundings i.e.: trees, shrubs, grass. This is because I see these power lines, parking lot lights and medians as the natural expectation of our new environment. These are spaces that involve reductive aesthetics in a commercially embedded architecture. Geometric and based in a language of commercial desire and aspiration, our environment is coated in a non-stick Teflon. By shattering shared reality and focusing on personal vision, the corneal scars of commercial saturation begin to soften.