2019

Acrylic works on unprimed canvas


The process for this body of paintings reflects to a great extent acts of gardening. I placed several of the large canvases on the floor, walked around those fields, and tended to them from all sides. I raked, dug, watered, spread and pulled, threw, and used self-built tools to apply many coats of diluted acrylic paint onto wet unprimed canvas. Most of the works in this series have tiny traces of dirt, leaves, and fir cones that I also used to apply paint. ⁠⁠
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The titles of these paintings are quotes from the books of Chris Kraus that I had read while working on this series.⁠⁠


she writes in a language not quite her own to render the familiar in all its strangeness, 170 x 200 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, traces of dirt, fir cone, chestnut fiber on unprimed canvas to someone gripped by extreme sensitivity, atmosphere’s everything, 130 x 170 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, dirt, plant fiber on unprimed canvas tripping out on content and causality, 140 x 160 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder on unprimed canvas still, the tension here is like the backbone of the lizard, 200 x 220 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder on unprimed canvas it’s a strangely utopian image, this transfer of capital. i.e., of energy, across the matrix, 200 x 250 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder on unprimed canvas people have a hard time with contradiction and inconsistency, even though it’s the norm, 140 x 300 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, traces of dirt, fir cone and chestnut fiber on unprimed canvas an amalgam of what we think a tree should be, 130 x 150 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, traces of dirt and chestnut fiber on unprimed canvas there’s just enough to give the afternoon some shape, 120 x 200 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, dirt, fir cone scraps, plant fiber on unprimed canvas everywhere, there is this yearning for simplicity, 170 x 200 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder, plant fiber on unprimed canvas an awareness that the present is totally open, there isn’t a script, everyone’s just making things up as they happen, 130 x 170 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder on unprimed canvas they swam at a beach close to here with a seal, 120 x 200 cm, acrylic paint, pigment, binder on unprimed canvas