Dean McInerney

I cannot imagine being complete; this is why I create. I find another being in the act, I find myself, rather than another lover. Creation is a parallel of desire and love. Creation cures loneliness; this is the core myth of Pygmalion. I find myself increasingly disinterested in painting for other people’s benefit. I am an onanist, but I am interested in our shared language. So, in pursuit of my own needs, I work for all. In my paintings I attempt to create an allegory of flux, migration, attraction, danger, and sexual and biological morphology. Religion and art are just struggles against death; thus spiritual and existential struggles are not contradictory. I am making spiritual art for an age of quantum mechanics and post-humanity, a series of musings on life without the customary edges. A return to the age-old art of painting is a conscious refusal of modernity and its forward, linear thrust; but more than that it is a return to firmament, the grounding of antiquity and craft.

Dean McInerney is one of 50 Artists featured in Metamorphosis (beinArt Publishing).