David Hazlett: The Space Between

The ability of artwork to elicit a lasting emotional response lies in its ability to reveal itself slowly. I layer thin veils of drawn, painted, or inscribed information in my work yielding images that are familiar and indistinguishable. This process allows some layers to be hidden or destroyed and other layers to come into focus.  Although some of the imagery is obscured, it remains valuable as a physical and visual subtext that increases the depth of the final image. The remaining visible imagery is often a distilled delineation of the original subject.   Regardless of how many times I repeat an artistic process or draw a particular form, each iteration exists both as its own unique moment and as an extension of all that I have made before it.  

My work is grounded in the elements of place, collaboration, and chance. In each region of the country in which I…