Just Strokes, Series 3

Description

Just Strokes, Series 3 Paintings

• 5 original drawings in the series
• acrylic on archival drawing paper, 2011
• signed on front and reverse
• 11″ x 14″, unframed
• artwork ships in a protective sleeve and is flat-packed by hand to prevent folding and curling

More adventures in stenciled abstract expressionism! It occurs to me only just now, ten years later, that these five paintings of layered, brightly-colors gestural brushstrokes are in the tradition of Ingrid Calame, whose painting I loved in the late 90s and early 00s.

Where Ingrid would find her drips and splatters in parking lots and other day-to-day environments, I made all my strokes in the studio. So I guess you could call me the novelist to Ingrid’s documentarian?

Also, in contrast to Ingrid’s work — I’m writing way more about Ingrid than I thought I was going to be — each of these paintings is a discreet composition on a clean, white background, as opposed to a field of color and splat. Again, I love those Ingrid Calame pieces: I’m just making distinctions here.

So, if you’ve ever experienced sticker shock when you told the gallery clerk, “I’d like the Ingrid Calame,” these pieces are for you!