Artist Statement
My work is a means to close wounds. My artistic language is informed by the specters of the abject and art brut, reducing expression to primal cries towards meanings. Through this I hope to continually forge a balanced identity diminishing its reliance on memory (cultural and personal) in its many faults and myths: to better speak to the issues of the traumatically afflicted individual. Not writing them off as solitary pariahs but as victims of external illnesses- of people seeking empire rather than liberation. The conditions would then be set for the artist to act as a catalyst for absurd infringements upon complacency.
Bio
Isaac Grigar is a mixed media painter and illustrator based in San Antonio, TX. His practice deals with accessing the source of nonverbal trauma and primal emotion in a variety of mediums- The work becoming approximate impressions of the feelings that language fails to annunciate. Isaac has taken this abject pursuit to many local shows in the San Antonio area and elsewhere in the form of statewide exhibitions. Tandem to this, he is an educator and seeks to serve his community through providing literacy in studio art, especially the kind that alleviates the pain of mental illness.