Guy Ilan Laks Portfolio Artist Statement Online Information Number15 Number11 Number13 I would like to fill as many walls as possible with a painted galactic infinity before I take my last breath. When properly stocked, my Culver City studio serves as a spaceship. I have spent years learning as many painted marks and surfaces as possible, reverse engineering the great paintings of the last century. The industrial nature of my practice and the size of the pieces demand a lot from my body and mind. I have trained my body to live on a low calorie diet and rigorous exercise so that everyday I can be the pilot of this ship. inspired by Gilles Delueze' Rhizome Theory of interconnectivity, I have shed all narrative content and am aiming to go out through my eyeholes and into the collective unconscious galaxy that binds us. The same existential threat that drove post WWII painters into the non representational realm, drove me, post 9/11 to the same place. Since 2001 I have been developing my studio practice and material control to produce a mark and surface that has just come into focus at the beginning of 2011. ilanlaks.com youtube.com/ilanlaks