acrylic and spray paint on canvas
17″ x 15″ x 2″
This is part of a series of work in which i scrape acrylic paint into a stretched unprimed canvas and then use spray paint on top. The spray paint sticks to the acrylic paint but is mostly absorbed by the canvas where there is no acrylic paint. This completely changes the marks underneath adding an interesting spacial dimension to the work and creating an almost photo graphic negative effect. Because of spray paints invention in the fifties (a time when modernism was giving way to postmodernism) i consider it a contemporary medium symbolic of our time. The paintings then become modernist works re-contextualized through the use of spray paint, subtly referencing the ideas of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.