In attempting to define collage over the years, Gary-Ross Pastrana has fortuitously stumbled upon the evolution of his own practice. The result has become a clear indication of not just forms and images being developed but a kind of language in its own right–his own. One that is communicated through the act of cutting and pasting pieces of paper and, in some cases, a return to painting–either combined with his collage compositions or purely on canvas.
In this latest exhibition he calls sign, signal, shadow, he forays deeper into the language collage has created for him in an attempt to seek out what is primal: where it could fundamentally start as a symbol or ‘logos’ before it could possibly speak of something more explicit or determinate.