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In 2003 I decided to focus more on art in my life and took a one-year leave of absence from my high-tech job and went to Vienna, Austria (where I'm from) to attend art school. During that year I experimented with many different techniques and media but soon focused on painting (acrylics, oils) and print making (block printing). I tend to use I either muted earth tones or very bright, intense colors (there doesn't seem to be much middle ground). Because I love learning about the materials I'm using I soon began making my own oil paints. Many of the earth tone oil paintings shown here are made with home-made oil paints.
Most of my paintings are abstract, and I would even call some of them "playful experimentation with colors". Almost all of my current pieces are based on fluid forms and their interactions and contain only occasional hard edges and straight lines (very different from how I painted 2 years ago). I sometimes think that the fluidity in my forms is a reaction to the rigidity and "hardness" I encounter in my regular job as computer person. I occasionally paint figural pieces but almost consider these as technical exercises and not part of my core work. My print making is quite a different story, though. There, I often work figural and rarely abstract. I have not really figured out yet why my printmaking and painting are so different. But should I find an answer this web page (or my blog) surely will be among the first to know.
I'm still new in the art world and I am just amazed at what an incredible ride it has been so far. I love the interaction with people who see my art and with other artists. Lately I started being brave enough to get more involved with the local art community and started to explore possibilities for artistic collaborations, which will open up an entirely new space for creative expression. I can't wait!
More information and recent work, experiments and thoughts about my work are in my blog.
I can be reached at andreas.dieberger "at" mac.com or you can leave comments on the blog!
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