The material facture is actually part of the de-realizing effect of their illusion.
Where many artists of the Finish Fetish school eschewed
the material facture of their works, DeLap has almost always chosen to construct his work himself, meticulously producing freestanding sculptures in aluminum, fiberglass, lacquer, Plexiglas, resin and molded plastics and fabrics.
Not exact matches
Recurrent throughout 8 Painters are stylings on past painterly marks and movements, not so much placed in quotations as absorbed into a work's
facture... It's a hopeful sign that the artists in [the show] demonstrate a critical distillation of influences that inform their particular sensibilities, philosophical outlooks, and relationship to
materials — not making any great claims, just proceeding in a personally deliberate way.»
I am currently using more traditional art
materials like paper, ceramics, paint, and wood but have also, and continue to use landscape
materials bacteria and more contemporary means of
facture like digital modeling and production.
Christopher Bedford writes that «Many of the most challenging painters working today — Dana Schutz, Daniel Dove, Lisa Sanditz, and Tom McGrath, for example — are disparately engaged with one central (albeit multifaceted) question: What is at stake in negating intelligible mimetic imagery with passages of pure
facture and, inversely, in undermining the autonomy of
materials and process with overt images?
It is not known if Untitled [glossy black painting] was produced as part of the first or second campaign.8 But the work's
facture resembles that seen in paintings associated with the first group, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Untitled [glossy black four - panel painting](fig. 4), and it explores the ambiguities of «monochrome» in ways that seem more closely tied to the abstract expressionist project than to the later paintings» concern with the degradation of
materials, an interest often linked to Rauschenberg's 1953 visit to Alberto Burri's (1915 — 1995) studio in Rome.9
«Combining a handmade aesthetic with a range of
materials, the works in «
Facture» manipulate spatial perception and challenge the distinctions between sculpture, painting, photography, and video.