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Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on August 25, 2016 at 5:30pm

Curator’s Comments:

 

This particular painting appears very process oriented to me, and viewing it within the context of your remarks made me think more about the impact of scale.  While you don’t include the dimensions of this painting, I do agree with your general assessment of viewers’ response to small paintings as objects, and larger spaces as participatory environments.  But I think that differentiation also comes through with the stylistic approaches and subjects.  I do see this work as experiential; the gestures of the marks combined with erratic/accidentally controlled brushstrokes suggest a haptic approach and intent.  But I have also viewed some small paintings as though they were objects, and rather than denigrate that experience, I could argue that this is also a satisfying way of seeing. The creation of a precious object/subject slows down the eye and produces an intimacy in the viewing experience.  Your work Copy for Wassily perhaps mediates these two interactions, as it has denser areas of texture and opaque color, and compositionally suggests a more singular mass of positive space.  While the painterly mark is still active within the picture field, I don’t necessarily get the feeling I’m looking at a work about something; it is something.