Neo-Precisionism
Precisionism was an early twentieth-century art movement in the United States inspired by the industrialization of the American landscape. It depicted the dynamism of the machine age with a balance of abstraction and accuracy. The art style’s fixation with stripping its subject matter down to its geometric essence was influenced by the European fine art forms of cubism and futurism, although it approached the dynamism of the industrial scene in the US with a more holistic attitude and greater emphasis on precision. Photography, being a direct representation of the scene before the camera, was particularly well suited to portraying this exactitude.
Now, for artists working in the digital age where images can be ‘pixel-perfect’, the time is ripe for a new Precisionism, for Neo-Presicionism. Precision is an inherent quality of digital capture, enabling the recording of a level of detail and a range of light unattainable with film. And digital processing affords a level of control over the presentation of the image as never before.
I consider my work to be Neo-Precisionist. This work makes no attempt at social commentary or to make any statement about human interaction with their environment. Rather, it encourages human interaction with their environment; it seeks to demonstrate the beauty to be found around us, if we choose to seek it.
