Yet not long after the Pennsylvania report saw the light of day, the Asbury Park Press published the results of recent erasure analyses in New Jersey, which flagged irregular
erasure marks on tests from several schools in the state.
That report flagged 60 schools statewide with suspicious gains and
erasure marks on standardized exams.
Not exact matches
Michael Bloomberg's legacy: Mr. de Blasio's foibles may be leading some New Yorkers to cast a longing look back at Mr. Bloomberg's chilly technocratic reign, but the ex-mayor's
mark on the city may be facing a slow
erasure.
A former Costano teacher told the paper that a school administrator had encouraged him to cheat
on the exams, and a subsequent examination of the students» actual answer sheets revealed an unusually high number of
erasure marks where answers had been changed from wrong to right.
While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as
Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the
erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings
on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis
on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.
With Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953), Rauschenberg set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through
erasure — an act focused
on the removal of
marks rather than their accumulation.
Working in ephemeral materials including paint, chalk, organic berry pigment and blood, Washington embarks
on an existential search as she layers multiple
marks and
erasures over time.
More concentrated
mark making and
erasures on the paper reveal textured areas with intense, rich color.
Developed while working in an abandoned school building with an abundance of blackboards, Simmons's signature «
erasure drawings» employ a process of smudging chalk
marks executed
on slate covered paper as if to eradicate the image and start again.
Shapeshifter is also an abstraction, this time of the
marks left
on or by used sandpaper sheets, collected from building sites around the world, representing both destruction and construction, human labour and mechanical
erasure.