Larry Kledzik

The practice of Installation Art allows an artist to engage the world in its entirety or in the particular, much like one would the instruments in a symphony orchestra. The music is already playing so it pays to be a good listener. In one sense I am a History painter, but it’s a different form of History: painting, Implied History. What I mean by “Implied History” is the concept of supra history - a perspective that examines the past, present and future simultaneously. The Installations are active in that I continue to work on them during their exhibition dates following an inner logic which unfolds in the process. The progression is recorded photographically as it occurs in a series of sculptural books on the Installations. I find an affinity in this process with Robert Rauschenberg’s statement about working in the Gap between Art and Life. My methodology is more like straddling the two.