Not exact matches
Any
blank surface becomes an enchanted forest with this patterned mural made
from wallpaper scraps.
Artist Statement My paintings emerge
from the emotion I feel in the moment my brush touches a
blank surface.
From a distance they look like
blank slates; as one gets closer one sees the more or less clear mandala - like, peculiarly dense form embedded in their seemingly amorphous
surface; and up close one discovers the intricate, excited, minute detail.
In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use different kinds of materials because I was looking for some kind of new way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings, in images that already exist, in
surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come
from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a
blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.»
The title of the piece, taken directly
from NOTES ON, points to the painful suspension of disbelief an artist experiences when facing «the
blank surface — the emptiness» that it «can / will actually become something» (Guérin 19).
Its
surface is broken only by a sliver of
blank canvas at the bottom that is flecked by drips
from the painting done above it.
We are presented with four works: in Tower Block, a
blank monitor is interjected with high rises, surreally spliced into abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the
surface texture of floorboards with a near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us with 21 miniature viewing - windows
from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.
It's not impossible to fill in the
blanks based on measurements
from a vertical track over the
surface it's just not as accurate as it would be if there were a constellation of satellites so samples could be taken directly overhead
from many orbital tracks.