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SHEEP IN MEADOW - Phthalo Green Landscape Painting w/ Animals in Grassy Field
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
UNTITLED 1 - Textural Abstract Oil Painting, Pink, Blue, Peach
By James Perrin
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
James Perrin’s abstract oil paintings create a visual language which, though appearing chaotic at first, reveal their meticulous craftsmanship and intuitive-driven intentions. In Pe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
FLOAT - Enamel on Digital Print Photograph, Collaborative Piece
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Douglas Degges (b. Shreveport, LA) is an artist and educator currently based in Mansfield Center, CT where he is an Assistant Professor of Art in Painting and Drawing at the Universi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
THIS RING LACKS A PUNCHERS CHANCE - Bold, Surrealist, Cubist, Blue, Purple, Gold
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DARK STAR HALO PASS - Bright & Bold Surrealist Cloud Oil Painting, Green
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
THE CLOUD - Bold, Surrealist Landscape, Cubist, Painting, Red and Green Cloud
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
RIOT NIMBUS PEAK - Purple, Blue Cubist Nebula Oil Painting, Surreal Illustration
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
INJURY VICE - Illustrative surreal cloud with bold colors, purple, cubist space
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright purple outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape.
Jason Stout wa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
AS ABOVE SO BELOW - Cubist, Surreal Still Life with Bold Colors
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW is a still-life by Jason Stout which draws on flat, symbolic imagery to portray the current political landscape in America. Using both t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
45 OLé COLLAPSE- Cubist, Surreal Still Life with Bold Colors, Beer Can, Orange
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
IN THE ROAD - Textural Figure Painting - Oil and Enamel on Panel - Light Blue
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In the series of paintings titled “That Feeling When,” Aldrich expands the excess of materials to large figure paintings and small, overfilled sculptures. Aldrich uses thick materials that protrude from the surface, reminding the viewer that the paintings are not only physical objects in themselves, but also create the illusion of the picture. The work employs a risky excess of material that borders on uncontrollable; becoming metaphoric for barely controlled femininity, the attraction and repulsion of materialism, and the body pressing against constraints.
The figures in the paintings are seen from behind or have turned away. The viewer is put in a place of questioning whether they are a voyeur or a co-viewer with the figure of something deeper in the picture plane. The full body paintings of young women based on Nancy Drew...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
SCIENCE FICTION SNOW NO. 1 - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By Yuri Figueroa
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Yuri Figueroa builds depth by layering in "Science Fiction Snow No. 1." Figueroa combines techniques of blending, dripping and smearing with the use of...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Looking for faith at the party - Contemporary Abstract Painting, geometric
By Michael Giles
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Looking for faith at the party" stems from finding pattern and rhythm in the world around him. Giles' paintings begin from finding places and spaces between words and lines in the text of "One Hundred Years of Solitude...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
RED LINE - Political, pink, brown, Oil and Razor Wire on Wood - Red Line Series
By Omari Booker
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Red Line" is one of eight pieces in Nashville based artist Omari Booker's series for his solo show “Red Line” at Channel to Channel.
Booker’s new series of work is centered around...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Steel
SPINNING PLATES - Circular Landscape Abstract Painting w/ Mid-Century Modern
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 2 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Green, Blue, & Grey
By Donald Keefe
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting is inspired by a non-representational compositional sketch that I turned into a sculpture and then an oil painting. Whereas previous works were treating the sculptural form strictly as a still life, in Untitled Construct 2 I wanted to bring the work back to its abstract origins. I lit the sculpture with colored lights...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
LATE SUMMER FORAGE - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
I liken my process of finding a spot to paint to be like foraging for mushrooms. I typically wander
through the woods with my gear, looking at the ground, finding places of intrigue ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
LUCIDITY - Mixed Media Portrait of a Woman w/ Textured Pattern Overlay - Framed
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Acknowledging the beauty that lies beneath, she struggles to break through past shallow entanglement. Clarity within reach, her gasping consciousness shutters beneath the weight of h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
THOU ART LOVED...THOU ART LOVED - Mixed Media Painting of Mirrored Figure
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
“My father is the subject in Thou Art Loved….Thou Art Loved.” If you were to speak to my father at this point, you may not recognize the repeating patterns of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil, Latex, Canvas
FOREST FLOOR INHABITANTS: OCTOBER - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In my most current forest wanderings, I am consistently fascinated by the entanglements of
species and how they tend to create their own ecosystem. Although the desolation of
defores...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WASHINGTON DISAPPEARING - Oil on Yupo Panel Painting of Plant Life in the Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This piece is about the allegory of being “lost in the woods” and the many different things that
can mean right now. I always come by a site for my paintings by wandering into the wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
NANCY & THE CIPHER- Embossing and Spray Paint Technique Depicting Nancy Drew
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
I often base my work on the covers of Nancy Drew books. She is illustrated as a doubly conscious figure: partially mugging for the viewer, and partially inv...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
CAUL BEARER - Mixed Media Portrait w/. Textured Floral Overlay - Framed in Black
By Matthew Dutton
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A gift yet come to fruition, the boys destined from the start for greatness or infamy. Laid out before him, a life full of visions longing for a chance to be conjured and revealed.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Ink, Watercolor
STINGRAY - Geometric Wall Hanging Sculpture/Painting in Acrylic & Panel
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This work is the result of a deep dive I did into researching stingrays, specifically the blue-spotted stingray.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
GREEN DUSK - Phthalo Painting of Morning View Ocean w/ Clouds, Sea, & Trees
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
AUTUMNAL II - Large Geometric Wall Hanging Painting/Sculpture in Acrylic & Panel
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
My favorite color is the blue of the sky in October in Tennessee. It is an intense, electric blue that is created in part through color theory: as the leaves turn, the reds, oranges,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
SEASIDE MIDDAY -Landscape Painting of Ocean Bay, Trees, & Sky - Oil on Arches
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
EMERALDO COAST - Phthalo Green, Yellow, and Blue Painting w/ Ocean and Sky
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
MEADOW'S EDGE - Landscape Painting of Field, Trees, Sky, & Clouds Oil on Paper
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
JUST ENOUGH TO STOP THE BLEEDING- Surrealist, Cubist Space Illustrative Painting
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
MEDIA SPIN CYCLE - Bold, Surrealist, Cubist Illustrative Oil Painting, Green
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
OPEN CARRY STORMS VARY - Illustrative surreal cloud with bold colors, cubist
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a pink outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible landscape. Images within the cloud include money, guns, knives, feet in worn shoes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
FIGHTING IRISH (Red Stripes) - Textural painting with ceramic inlay, enamel
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
A person reclines in a red striped lawn chair. The subject's body presses against the back of the hair, revealing a Notre Dame Fighting Irish logo on hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Enamel
LETTER PRESSED INK ON PAPER, PANEL VI - Contemporary Abstract - Pink, Blue, Green
By Jessica Gatlin
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
An exercise in language and rule making. Partly intuitive, partly randomized, modular blocks are arranged and rearranged on the letterpress bed. Colors are placed, shifted, or replac...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink, Handmade Paper
IRONING - texturized lenticular painting, optical illusion, geometric abstract
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"In these works, Aldrich paints on surfaces that have been covered in uniform vertical strips of caulk. The textures don’t play into the subjects of these paintings so much as create a consistent 3D pattern across the whole surface of a wood panel covered with canvas.
Two of the most interesting works in this style give us graphic renderings of domestic interiors laid out in blocks of color and elemental shapes. 'Kitchen Sink' and 'Ironing' depict counters, faucets and ironing boards through a distorted perspective that’s unnervingly deep and narrow, vertiginous and claustrophobic. The caulk brings lots of texture to these works, and Aldrich’s paint appears to be applied in chromatic washes of yellow, pink and blue that seem serene given their off-kilter surroundings. In fact, Aldrich uses the repeating vertical textures to create vividly colored lenticular illusions in these works, which only reveal themselves as viewers move past the paintings.
In addition to their formal qualities and their narrative content, Aldrich’s works also comment on traditional gender roles in Western society. Her narrative portraits are mostly inspired by the covers of Nancy Drew novels. Drew, the “girl detective” who first appeared in print as a female counterpart to the Hardy Boys...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
SYNTAX RUMBLE - Yellow, Green Cubist Nebula Oil Painting, Surreal Illustration
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
METEOR - Contemporary Abstract Painting w/ Smooth Gradients & Curvilinear Lines
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this painting, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a work which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representational. Using rich blues and orange...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
THE GORGE WALKER - Painting of the Artist's Wife Hiking Through a Gorge
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In THE GORGE WALKER, Charlie Newton attests to the spiritual reality of our human relationship with nature. Emphasizing the linear qualities of nature, its ability to permeate deep i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PEONY BUNCH - Still-life Painting - Oil on Arches Oil Paper
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
BORDEAUX
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
MOSSY TRAIL - Serene, Glowing, & Magical Landscape Painting of a Forest
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Amanda describes her work as a reaction to the “complex pattern, rhythm and color” in the world. In Mossy Trail the eye is immediately drawn to a bright red line of light highlightin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
BANANARAMA - Pop art Painting with Pink Lips and Banana, Blue, Yellow
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
BANANARAMA by Elizabeth Winnel is compositionally similar to work she has created in the past- a set of lips at the center of the painting, mouth open...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
THREE SERVINGS A DAY - Large Pop Art Painting with Cucumbers and Lips, Pink
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
THREE SERVINGS A DAY by Elizabeth Winnel is compositionally similar to work she has created in the past- a set of lips at the center of the painting, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
NIGHT TABLE OF THE ASSASSISN - Cubist, Surreal Still Life w/ Bold Colors, Knife
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
NIGHT TABLE OF THE ASSASSIN brings a view of what is seemingly a home office or studio work place and blends late-French symbolist still life painting with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
EQUIVALENCE 118- Acrylic on cut Linen - Abstract Geometric Painting
By Linda King Ferguson
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting on cut linen canvas by Linda King Ferguson depicts a diamond shaped canvas that is color-blocked into three main sections. The topmost triangular portion of the canvas ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
PURGATORY - Brown Abstraction of Dead Souls Between Heaven and Hell
By Constantin Werner
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting is the artist's rendering of Purgatory. Some of the faces are barely visible through the murky atmosphere, their expressions are frightened, yelling into the void. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
DAWNING - Cubist, Bright & Bold Surreal Still Life with Table, Fruit, Tile
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting by Jason Stout was completed during the Covid-19 quarantine in 2020. While his previous work dealt mostly with surrealist spacescapes and nebulas, he focused on still l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
CONSUMPTION NATION BOOM - Purple Nebula Oil Painting, Surreal Spacescape
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This "cloud composition" by Jason Stout is a surrealist spacescape, in which a whirl of objects are suspended in a cloud. In this painting, we see gun barr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
DISCONNECTED - Surrealist Bright and Bold Nebula Painting, Green, Black, Purple
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
MONEY - GOLD CENTER PAINTING - Abstract Oil and Gold Leaf Painting, Dollar Signs
By Yuri Figueroa
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting was created for Yuri's "Gold Center Series," in which he uses gold leaf to create a perfect circle in the center of the piece. In this painting, the gold circle overlap...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
NANETTE (Back with Fence) - Eleanor Aldrich - Figure - Texture - Contemporary
By Eleanor Aldrich
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"Nanette (Back with Fence)" is a textural, contemporary figure painting by Knoxville based artist Eleanor Aldrich. Refusing engagement, the figure is turned away from the viewer. Further distance is created by a rugged representation of a chain link fence and layers of paint, enamel, and silicone. The only clue to the figure's gender is in the title, and the collision of industrial materials with a female representation provides a poignant conflict. Flashes of found paper provide hints of a t-shirt or other type of graphic clothing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
GC Ms 3 Babel - Abstract Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas, black and white, collage
By Yuri Figueroa
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This work is a collage work utilizing found newspaper as the foundation of the painting which is then squeegeed over with black and white oil paint. A masked gold leaf circle remains...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
“PRLS-1000” contemporary abstract collage, mixed media, purple, blue, multi
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
"PRLS-1000" is part of Eric Mack's urban grid series. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack creates movement across the piece with dynamic techniques of washy underpainting underneath matted pieces of paper, and thread. His paintings have been described as "intellect on top of emotion."
Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world.
His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Thread, Paper, Glitter, Acrylic
PVB-7600 - Contemporary Abstract Collage Painting, purple, brown, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
PVB-7600 is part of Eric Mack's ongoing body of work utilizing multi-media, complex compositions, and a grid centered around urban design. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack has utilized paper adhered by a matte medium to create graphic imagery of text and color blocks on top of a canvas dyed in ink. This painting is gallery wrapped with canvas on top of stretcher bars. Mack's paintings have been described as "intellect on top of emotion".
Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world.
Collections include High Museum Atlanta...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY - Landscape Painting of Ocean, Trees, & Sky - Oil on Arches
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Coming soon
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil
SURF - Contemporary Abstract Painting w/ Curvilinear Lines & Smooth Gradients
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In this work, Michelle Weddle utilizes line, color, and form to create a painting which acts at the balance between the nonobjective and representational. Using organic, elliptical s...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ADOPTION - Wall Hanging Sculpture, Neon Yellow, Black, Orange, Pink
By Joshua Edward Bennett
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
JOSHUA EDWARD BENNET lives and works in New Orleans, LA. He received his MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 2019 with a concentration in digital arts. Bennett received ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Acrylic
LETTER PRESSED INK ON PAPER, PANEL III - Contemporary Abstract w/ Earth Tones
By Jessica Gatlin
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Jessica Gatlin uses the process of letter pressing to create these pieces on paper that have been mounted to a small panel. An exercise in language and rule making. Partly intuitive,...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink, Wood Panel
Holes and Slices - Nick Peña - Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
In "Holes and Slices", Peña creates a silhouette of house and fills it with bubbly curved shapes and contrasts them with sharpe-edged shapes that contain gradients and muted tones of aqueous colors such as teal and light blue. He balances these colors with muted tones of pink and violet. The viewer can create a house that is yet to be built in between the gaps here. In "Holes and Slices", Peña remarks on a house and landscape that has yet to be built. The aquatic nature seems to hint at the possibility of a house and landscape under water. The painting is created with watercolor and acrylic paint on paper. In the foreground we see Sintra board or flattened PVC that has been CNC routed. In the "soil" beneath the house are small bubble-like cut outs where the viewer can see through to the pattern created with watercolor and acrylic paint.
Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment and national psyche.
The realization that both the idealistic pursuit of happiness and the relevance of painting in a technologically driven world informs his practice. With each composition the labor begins with digital composites of a fragmented American landscape in peril —where tension lies in the contrasts between past and present, analog and digital, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability.
In his most recent series the American home (stability) and fragmented and shifting landscape (instability) are veiled by a digitally produced mat. Traditionally a mat is, by definition, a flat, thin piece of paper based material included within the picture frame and serves as additional decoration when framing artwork. He activates this commonly overlooked material by using a non-traditional material, Sintra (flattened sheet of PVC), that has a negative digitally drawn image cut-out. This cut-out might, at first glance, look hand cut however, a more astute viewer would realize the precision is mechanical. The mat has been transformed from inactive decoration to digitally produced veil that represents the technologically anxious precision we surround ourselves with.
Nick Peña...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
PVC, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
