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MARK HARRIS | Work
and Commentary
Cut Paper Work
Bluegrass
Geometry, 1997, 48" x 48", acrylic paint, woven cut
paper.
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As part
of this painting method I have wanted to complicate the vocabulary
of gestural abstraction with inappropriate ingredients. It's
a way of deviating from the recipes of abstraction. Elements from '60s
psychedelia, printed textiles, from craft processes like weaving
and wood inlay, from tawdry '50s design, from hippy furnishings,
are incorporated as motifs of a gestural vocabulary. This mixes a
canonical gestural language with some of the visual paraphernalia
from recent culture including visual languages tainted as having
second-class status. The possibilities of impurity and incorrectness
fascinate me, especially as tools to get under the protective aura
of that abstraction's claim to ontological authenticity.
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