The very visceral process of the scraping and
rubbing out of images in the Black Paintings, moreover, anticipates the ripped, torn and violated sheets of paper on which Spero literally unleashed her anger in works about the Vietnam War and the torture of women.
Not exact matches
Keltie Ferris's paintings are inspired by subjects that range from the broken up pixelation
of digital
images,
rubbed out graffiti on New York streets to the glimmering city lights that are visible from her Brooklyn studio at night.
This installation foregrounds a mode
of art making Holstad developed and is continually engaged with: clipping
images from newspapers and first
rubbing areas
out, leaving in their place blank, haunting suggestions
of forms.
For example, in the sculpture titled,... And there's my marble double, a heavy gray form holds its negative mirror
image — a plaster cast
of a foam head with
rubbed out eyes, imperfections and cracks; a discarded hat display.
We had the
images rubbed out of the concrete by our contractor.