O Teeth (66 x 34 1/8”, handmade oil on canvas 2009)
Selima Square (7 ¾ x 9 7/8”, handmade oil on canvas 2009)
Hege (32 x 27 ½”, handmade oil on canvas 2009)
The Melancholy Fishwives (65 ¼ x 37 7/8”, handmade oil on canvas 2008)
BINGO (9 5/8 x 12 ¾”, handmade oil on canvas 2009)

Artist Statement

Objects can be mental states, and mental states can be physical.

Paintings are physical objects. When I make a painting I try to follow this physicality as far as I can, starting with making my own paint from pigment and thinking very specifically about the stretcher and canvas.  By really following the physical nature of a painting, the mind/body distinction can undermine itself, generating a concept that is a physical object, a painting we can use.

It doesn’t matter exactly what the painting looks like – it matters, but it matters to the painting, not to me.

Websites

allmaier.wordpress.com
http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=9682