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MARK HARRIS | Work
and Commentary
Cut Paper Work
Untitled, 1996, 96" x
28" x 36", acrylic paint, cut paper, oil on acetate.
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These cut-paper
works come out of an interest in the meaning of gesture in contemporary
painting. I enjoy querying the way that abstract painting generates
signifiers of expression. It's in this sense that I'll
make a work which resembles an expressive painting but which through
its fabrication is really the antithesis of expressiveness. One intention
is to establish new criteria for constructing and viewing a painting.
For a long time I've been prefabricating immediacy by using
stencilled splashes and cutout drips that theatrically replicate
a kind of painterly authenticity. To do this I make work out of cut-up
painted paper. Paint is dripped onto paper from which everything
unpainted is then cut away. I'm left with a fragile structure,
like the residue of a painting, which I may combine with similar
fragments to make painted layers.
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