He started to cover his panels with photocopies of three things: his Mississippi birth certificate, his passport ID, and his address book, each of which would form the basic structures under his new series of intricately layered
oil stick grids.
Not exact matches
You may clean the
grids by wiping with a damp cloth to prevent staining and
sticking from batter or
oil buildup.
Ten works on paper from 2010 are exhibited in the second room of the gallery in which Whitten experiments with dry pigment, graphite and
oil stick, and creates
grid - like compositions by transferring the structure of objects, such as a radiator, directly onto paper with a graphite block.
Upon closer inspection, the seemingly monochromatic beige
oil -
stick skeins give way to teeming beds or imperfect
grids of barely perceptible crisscrossing blue, green, and red lines.
A one - person exhibition of large scale Triangle paintings and
oil stick on paper followed in 1993, at the Andre Zarre Gallery [11] where the artist employed a tight
grid overridden by gesture and a plastic color palette.
Black art, elsewhere so dishearteningly co-opted for political statement, here featured as high art; case in point, the pristine
oil and
stick grid painting on board by McArthur Binion at Massimo de Carlo.
Done with
oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi
grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.
Photocopies of his birth certificate, pages from his address book, his passport photos, newspaper clippings, and photographs of his mother and childhood home constitute the tiled base of his works, over which he layers
grids of
oil stick.
Early on, Binion identified and made innovative use of
oil stick, using it in thick application to impose a rigid formalism to his
gridded compositions.
Each drawing presents a
grid of rudimentary faces rendered in dark - colored
oil -
stick on cotton rag.