Not Even the Little Things Print

This is a highly layered abstract painting in acrylic, marker, and spray dye on canvas. I've been exploring the roll of pattern in abstraction, and playing with how sets of rules can be spontaneously generated, then twisted to create new and unexpected patterns and shapes. In this painting that exploration takes the form of hand-drawn and hand-painted repetitive marks. The major pattern form here is a more organic one, like the grown of a vine. In general, three leaves bud out of a leaf or leaves that have come before them. Sometimes it is two leaves, sometimes it is four, five, or six. These leaves may bud out of either side of the vine, leading the vine to break and spread grow in a pattern of ever increasing branches. The simple act of making three arced lines over and over leads to a complex pattern to form. In this painting this is explored on three layers: the very first layer is split between ovular shapes on the grid and leaves on a vine, though the leaves are mostly obscured by other layers. A mid-layer involves smaller leaf-vines in sharpie which are crips and black and can be seen a bit to the left of center, and another mid layer involves brushed on leaf work in hues of blue-purple. Much of this pattern work is obscured by layered of poured paint, pushing the crisp lines back into a foggy distance creating a sense of depth and mystery.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:9 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:14.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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