Burn, 2019
Industrial floor paint, silver leaf, acrylic and household paint on canvas (pierced and scratched)
30 x 21 cm
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
JD0224
£ 1,800.00 (Plus VAT and shipping)
Through their reductive, minimal aesthetic and their entropic materiality these works allude to the romantic sublime yet they also take on more human associations. Left wrapped in plastic for a...
Through their reductive, minimal aesthetic and their entropic materiality these works allude to the romantic sublime yet they also take on more human associations. Left wrapped in plastic for a year before exhibiting one of the paintings has begun to turn both the golden hue of a corn-field sunset and the straw yellow of a fading bruise. Through these works there is a growing association with the moribund. Pink acrylic over silver leaf has dispersed and coagulated like oil on water, creating a bright rash-like bloom across a surface. Burnished silver welts up like a faded scar. Douglas’s punctures and scratches begin to allude as much to the pitted, agonised flesh depicted by Matthias Grunewald as to the spatial concepts of Lucio Fontana. *
*from exhibition text for Jennifer Douglas, Workplace - Gateshead, 2019
*from exhibition text for Jennifer Douglas, Workplace - Gateshead, 2019