Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 10" x 20"

Utilizing dazzling colors and bold strokes lines, Puryear’s works embody contention between fluid and concrete, worldly and ethereal, austere, and indulgent, which lends each piece a noticeably vibrant essence which can only come from melding such opposing ideologies.

Puryear’s paintings tend to focus on dream analyses and outlandish interpretations of his own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. “I want the viewer to give the piece meaning, to give it a story, a life. I want them to make it their own.”

However, with themes ranging from redemption to universal connection, each piece is unquestionably personal to Puryear.  So personal in fact, that he likes to incorporate a piece of himself into all of his work. Be it a subtle symbol such as the allegory-laden lotus flower, to a more conspicuous self-portrait of a fedora adorned individual, Puryear’s literal influence is never lacking, despite his desire for outside interpretation