“I am a messy painter. When I come home from the studio, I live in fear that the next morning will bring to light smudges, smears, and all kinds of out of place marks. I cannot not be messy and my medium du jour will always follow me outside the studio. Being a painter means that my abstracted view of the word imbues the everyday object and situation. My work is not intended as pure abstraction, but as a record of my experience. I am drawn to fundamentals, to core components of larger systems. I view these as the simplest abstractions, the building blocks of systems unrecognizable from their constituent parts. Put together enough of these blocks and you obtain something interesting, something new, something only you could create. This, to me, is a fundamental aspect of painting and life. There is no grand entrance, no deus ex machina, no flash of genius—simply a series of incremental layers building to something great.” — George Zalepa

OMNITEMPORAL EXPRESSIONISM

As an artist, George Zalepa calls his style Omnitemporal Expressionism. This approach to painting is his way of capturing the non-linear, atemporal nature of human emotion and experience. When he creates a piece, he aims to transform the canvas into a receptacle for his thoughts, memories, and feelings across the entire spectrum of his life. His work is not constrained by chronology; instead, he allows his mental and emotional states from various points in time to intermingle freely on the canvas.

Zalepa's creative process is as integral to the meaning of his art as the final product. He often revisits the same canvas over extended periods and works on multiple pieces at once and in the same time period. Each painting session is an opportunity for him to add new layers of expressive brushwork, symbolic elements, and fragments of text that reflect his current cognitive and emotional landscape. The resulting works are complex, multi-layered surfaces that encapsulate the "omnitemporality" of his inner self – a holistic, non-linear representation of his experiences and emotions across time.

Through his work, Zalepa invites viewers to contemplate the fluid, ever-shifting nature of human consciousness and the way our past, present, and future selves coexist within us at any given moment. He sees his art as a deeply personal exploration of the human experience, and he hopes that it resonates with others who are navigating their own complex emotional and mental landscapes.