He also created a signature kind of tesserae: small cubes cut from
slabs of acrylic paint and adhered to the canvas, angled to catch and reflect light.
Not exact matches
The ground is formed not by
acrylic «tiles» or a large
slab of acrylic but by a
painted surface.
Whitten's «developer» — a twelve - foot - long wooden rake invented by the artist to move large amounts
of acrylic paint in a single gesture — resulted in his «
slab»
paintings, large color fields defined by a single movement.
Elad Lassry's latest exhibition at David Kordansky commingles two groups
of seemingly disparate works: highly wrought wooden sculptures, carved from single
slabs of dark walnut, and dated commercial photographs, which have been intervened upon with materials such as
acrylic paint, colored wires, and beads.
Untitled
Slab Works 1, circa 1978 - 1980; black and white photograph
of cast concrete sculptures with
acrylic paint in artist studio; 8.5 x 11 in.
Whitten's poetic and physically compelling compositions reinvent the medium
of painting time and again — from his series
of small «ghost»
paintings of the 1960s, his smeared test
slabs and dragged canvases
of the 1970s, and his collaged
acrylic «skins»
of the 1980s to his more recent tessellated constructions
of paint tiles.