Purposive painting and material choices underly the individuality of a composition or a focused run of works. The production of these works can come quickly or may go long stretches focused on a specific path.

 

The results are about the artist's visually realized emotional rhythms and the relationships of compositional structures and rudiments. Specific combinations of content are considered to accomplish a particular poetry.

 

    Realization of these works is similar to hiking a trail and following tributaries that peel off into previously unexplored areas. Or moving down a river you've been on often and focusing in on something previously unnoticed, or perceptions not before realized.

 

Brad Nugent selects current and recollected visual and emotional elements from his experiences and observations and fabricates compositionally specific presentations employing those elements. Expressing those discoveries, this way, is the juice. 

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    What viewers take away from these results is dependent on their experiences and perceptions. In the broadest sense, the artist considers this evolving catalog to be as the content of books and their various components. Or music, in its different iterations. At best, a general statement is merely a marker stating “start here”.