I have been very busy creating some works on paper for the SCA Gallery Sale. Some of the works might not make it to the show because I have fallen in love with a few. I wanted to share them with you, so I will post some pics here.

Welcome to CourtneyOquist.com, an online portfolio featuring works by LA-based artist Courtney Oquist. Please be patient, as the website is an in progress work, but please check back often as new images and information will be being updated on a regular basis.

A very big THANK YOU to Brian Balchack for making this site possible. Check out his other websites, where his diverse talent is fully utilized: Movieweb.com, SplatterFilms.com, SuperheroFlix.com, and IgniteBand.com
Thanks for stopping by!

Courtney

SMALL WORKS/UNFRAMED ART

Artists are invited to submit small or unframed works to support SCA Project Gallery.

WORK WILL BE ON EXHIBITION IN THE SCA PROJECT GALLERY DEC. 9 – 22, 2006
RECEPTION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2006
NO WORK PRICED OVER $90
281 S. Thomas Street, #104 Basement Level Pomona, CA 91766

For more info, please visit: www.scagallery.com

For original work:

You may email me at courtney at courtney oquist dot com.

Visit my online Etsy shop for prints and originals!

I also have things at Velocity Art and Design

To see my other fun project:

Please visit www.artistscookbook.com

My work deals with the ephemeral, transformative and mutative qualities inherent to existence.  Through a process of adding and subtracting from the surface of the painting I arrive at a place that is actively becoming and in process.  I use painting as a medium between physical and metaphysical space, exploring the moment of rupture between representation and abstraction, between human and animal bodies, and between material and mental states.  Brushstrokes become forms, people become animals, animals become plants, paint becomes surface, and surface becomes thought.

Guided by intuition, my paintings unfold, are painted over, and covered up, incorporating many layers, from the looseness of an under painting to more carefully rendered moments to create an atmosphere that is in multiple states of becoming, revealing itself to me as much as to another viewer.  I am interested in showing through paint handling as well as the flow of content that there is something unstable, vacillating and mutable about the world in itself and the way one interacts with the world, as if a mutating raft on an agitating sea.