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MARK HARRIS | Work
and Commentary
Cut Paper Work
Untitled, 1996, 28" x 5" x 5",
acrylic paint, cut paper, oil on plywood.
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I
have this notion that there's a use for "bad craft,"
for an inelegance in construction and implausible combinations of
process.
I'm enthusiastic, therefore, about discontinuity and inconsistency
as principles by which paintings might be assembled. All such procedures
are part of the development of a more complex notion of craft work
which emphasizes decorative aspects. These constructions are the
start of references to clothing, to fashion, to an excess of care,
to an excess of colour and texture. As part of a de-masculinization
of gestural painting these pieces begin to quote from the functions
of clothing with cut paper embellishing or ornamenting a structure.
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