Madison, WI ARTIST STATEMENTDennis Nechvatal’s visual world is one of enigmatic beauty and natural wonder, inviting close investigation and layered interpretations. Though rendering a near overabundance of visual detail, Nechvatal collapses foreground and background into a single dense plane, reveling in the minutia of natural observation. His idiosyncratic visions focus on botanical imagery through still lifes and landscapes, often using abstracted figures or masks as stand-ins for the presence of humans in these phantasmagorical spaces.