Artist Statement

I hope to build believable spaces that reshuffle our expectations in a way akin to dreaming or being hypnotized. Gravity can be denied. Straight lines wobble and threaten to bend. I think about the psychology of space, memory, and perception as it relates to a viewer's reality. The studio acts as a site for experimentation and a point of departure, where perspectival interiors merge with unexpected leaps into remembered or observed phenomena and conventional space mashes with flattened abstraction and stylistic fancy. Feeling more kinship with a stagehand than a storyteller, I leave the final pivotal role of narration to the viewer. These are stages for unseen painted events.

Biography

Grant Hottle was born and raised in the dusty suburbs of Oklahoma City. He attended the Utrecht School of the Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands in 2002, earned his BFA in Painting from the University of Oklahoma in 2003, and received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Oregon in 2007. He has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. He most recently taught as a Visiting Professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon where he lives and makes pictures.