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Fred Roster"s artist statement

Leonardo da Vinci is at the top of the list of artists I would like to meet because of the way he combines different kinds of thinking/perceptions. He would frame scientific thought in aesthetically beautiful ways; to me, that’s very important. I’m perpetually testing things, trying to figure out ways to do what’s not supposed to be done. Leonardo didn’t seem to have limitations. He would find ways to do things, invent.

More often then not, I assemble things; I can make that union and integrate disparate materials and forms. I use various materials to speak of or inform the image. Mixed media just seems like a larger vocabulary.

In the mid-1970’s I started working more figuratively. Narration became more important. I didn’t want a person to believe they could understand my work in the brief time they viewed it at an exhibition. Recently I’ve allowed the work to speak more clearly. Much of the time the work is topical, dealing with global issues. Invariably there is a personal subtext.