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Drawing, Marker on Canvas
Size: 46.5 W x 59.5 H x 1.5 D in
This is a fluidly drawn object that hangs just inside the parameter of the canvas. Even though it may be construed as abstract it is closer to an object that grew. For me it is a symbolic respite from other work I make that is biographical and figurative. I was inspired by the work of Dr Seuss and Sol LeWitt. The reason I used marker pen was for the advantage of continuous application. When I use paint I have to break away and reapply paint to the brush. Using a marker pen allows me to create the whole thing quickly in one sitting with little or no pause. The speed at which I make the marks has an effect on the feeling of the object. Through speed I am more readily seen. Making the work is the opposite of remembering. The title is from my favorite author right now. Saunders also captures a metaphysical and deeply human quality with his written work that I would like to achieve in the visual arts. I would like the viewer to see time made visible and my touch. I hope it's touching.
Drawing:Marker on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:46.5 W x 59.5 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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James Brook (British, b. 1974) began as a copyist of Renaissance and late 19th century paintings after graduating with a BA (hons) in Fine Art/Theatre & Film from the University of York St John, UK in 1997. He then turned his attention to drawings he made as a child, utilizing their raw, non-academic nature and painted his first remades, a series of enlarged reproductions of this earlier work. Seeing little difference in high and low art he adopted a slacker sensibility making sculptures using found-objects in thrift stores that reminded him of things he grew up with in his parents home: amateur paintings, porcelain ornaments, defunct machines and ephemera now forgotten by culture. This led him to using other cultural objects pertinent to his adolescence, painting over (adjusting) a series of commercial posters typically found in the bedroom of his youth. His most recent series are what he calls Tangle paintings which contrast with his biographical work as “the opposite of remembering”. His work focuses on human identity, lineage, and time. "A lot of it's to do with stuff that shapes you when you're young. I want to reorganize everything that’s made me me, both good and bad, physical and psychological then turn it into an object so I can be free of it.”
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