Piers Secunda ISIS
Bullet Holes Paintings April 6 — May 6, 2017 There is a horror and a fascination in something as apparently permanent as a building, something that one expects to last many a human span, meeting an untimely end.
Artspeak has interviewed Piers Secunda about his current solo exhibition «ISIS
Bullet Hole Paintings» at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York until 6 May.
Not exact matches
He stuck to his guns and developed a vision — and
painted bullet holes 30 years before Nate Lowman did.
So did Yoshida Toshio's burns in a panel, Tanak Atsuko's sand drawing, Montonaga Sadamasa's nails coming out of a pillar, Shiraga Fukiko's
bullet holes, Uemae Chiyū's glue and sawdust, Shimamoto Shōzō's hurled bottles of
paint, or Murikami Saburō's passing right through the canvas — and the leftover unsettles the closure of a performance just as deconstruction would predict.
Through the cracked ice of a massive iceberg and
bullet hole in a glass window, he comes to the works based on the X-rays of
paintings by van Gogh and the Old Masters.
Walls are pocked with
bullet holes, upholstery savaged by gunfire, and genteel neoclassical interiors tarnished by peeling
paint.
The show features a temporary WOPPOW flagship store featuring fashion with
bullet holes as trademarks and the Deephorizon project that presents oil
paintings that are directly linked to the BP oil spill.
In other works filigrees of
painted bullet holes seem to pepper the surface, their Rorschach - like arrangements intimating a frenzied psychological dimension in tandem with the depicted scene.
Phillips London Contemp Sale Pulls in $ 15 Million — The top lots were a 1982 untitled Basquiat for $ 2.5 million and a 1997 black - and - white pattern
painting by Christopher Wool for $ 2.6 million, while artist records were set for Nate Lowman ($ 522,728 for a 2005
bullet -
hole painting) and Ryan Sullivan ($ 141,438 for a 2011 abstract
painting) in a sale presided over by Alexander Gilkes, filing in for the now - gone Simon de Pury.
Nicolas Hunt's Caliber Abstractions Mugello Gallery By Kathy Zimmerer Through July 16th
Paintings with
bullet holes by Nicholas Hunt seem to echo the headlines as gun violence became even more political with the GOP baseball practice shooting, and another gun fueled rampage devastating the UPS workplace in San Francisco.
What made The
Bullet Series unique was that the paintings were shot with an M16 rifle using a Hornet bullet, which left a clean hole through the c
Bullet Series unique was that the
paintings were shot with an M16 rifle using a Hornet
bullet, which left a clean hole through the c
bullet, which left a clean
hole through the canvas.
Using unconventional means of interruption, such as shotgun blasts,
bullet holes and spray
paint, Burroughs charged his work with the same rebellion and wit found in his novels.
His interest in homemade weaponry and ballistics continues in a dueling set bristling with potential damage and, more obliquely, a small
painting by Ross Bleckner with several
bullet holes that is in the tradition of Rauschenberg's famous erased de Kooning drawing.