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Painter, born and lives in the U.K. who uses the physical gesture to explore the possibilities of pa...
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Joined In 2010
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Painter, born and lives in the U.K. who uses the physical gesture to explore the possibilities of painting with computer mixed paints and modern engineering plastic materials.The artist describes his 'Shiny Paintings' as a critical exploration of the space between the act of painting and the photographic/computer generated image.
Essay by Wendy Osgerby, Senior Lecturer Art History, University College
Northampton.
It has been said that it is not possible to paint like Jackson Pollock any more.
Steve Turner's work, in a very real sense, is a response to that statement.
Pollock offered painters new possibilities by using industrial paints from a can and working on the horizontal. In 1951 Hans Namuth filmed Pollock from beneath glass as he dripped and splashed the paint onto the surface. In this instance the glass was used as a vehicle in a study of process.
Although Steve Turner's paintings are not on glass but cast acrylic (a transparent plastic) there is a connection. He, however, paints on both sides of transparent
ground - the cast acrylic. That and the other materials, computer mixed gloss, and fluorescent paints, are more technologically advanced than those used by Pollock.
The resulti...
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