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City of Glass 63 - (The Book is the Tower is Central Park is the dark blue of night is the Book) Painting

ashley hanson

United Kingdom

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 27.6 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

From Paul Auster's novel 'The New York Trilogy'. The spine of my paint-spattered copy of The New York Trilogy enters the painting, playing many roles...

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Painting:

Oil on Canvas

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27.6 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in

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In all my work, I am intrigued by the dialogue and tension between image and the flat, map-like, painter’s space, and the different realities of information and imagination - between what inspires and drives the paintings and the uncertainties and excitement of the painting process. As an artist I crave/need surprise, not sameness: it is what you ‘do’ with the source material that matters, a piece must be its own thing, have its’ own life. Journeys, places, books, music, all generate ideas, providing catalyst and context, and colour always excites, but until it is resolved, a painting is a live thing, full of possibilities. In his forward to ‘Il Mistero de Cattedrell’, Anselm Keifer wrote: ‘If there is too much order, it is dead; if there is too much chaos, it doesn’t cohere. I’m continually negotiating between these two extremes.’ Freedom and control is the contradiction of painting: finding the balance is the essence of my work. Since 2011, I have been working on the ‘City of Glass series, inspired by ‘The New York Trilogy’, a novel by Paul Auster. It is thrilling to be working from another artform, combining images sourced from narrative and text with memories of my own experience of New York. As a painter I can relate to Auster’s striking imagery and complex layerings of identity and truth and his acknowledgement and explorations of chance.

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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London

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