Paintings & Drawings2020produced

MRKS

Thirteen canvases and panels where the mark is the whole subject

A landscape canvas of black, red and yellow spray strokes on white, floated centred on a flat red field.

The same canvas filling the frame, a broad black stroke, a red curl and yellow spray across white. — RANDOM MARKS ORIGINS, off the plate.

Six white panels butted into one wide rectangle, crossed by a broad black brushstroke, a red curved line and two red dots. — YOU COMPOSED, acrylic on wood panel.

A large square white panel scattered with small red and black marks, scribbled loops, blocks and a red band along the bottom edge. — ABSTRACT STORYTELLING, acrylic on wood panel.

Thirteen paintings from 2020, acrylic and spray paint on stretched canvas and on wood panel. Sizes run from a 20,5 by 43 centimetre triptych up to a panel two metres across. Most are white grounds carrying a small number of marks, with wide empty space left around them.

Four square canvases hung in a two-by-two block, each sprayed with red, yellow and blue bursts on white. — RANDOM MARKS I II III IV, spray paint on canvas, 30x30 cm each.

A square canvas with a yellow stroke and a red splat along the top, a black elongated blob across the middle and an orange burst below. — The set one at a time, top left.

The mark is the whole subject. Each canvas fixes a count or a kind of gesture and stops there, twenty marks, three sequences of movement, four squares of spray. Nothing is filled in afterwards, so the white is not backing. It is the interval that lets one gesture be read against the next.

A square canvas with a round orange blob upper left, a red diagonal band and a curved orange stroke low on a pale blue haze. — Top right.

A square canvas with a blue arc, a red splat and a black dot at the top, and a large red and yellow burst through the centre. — Bottom left.

A square canvas with a fingered red burst at its centre, blue spray behind it and small black marks at the lower edge. — Bottom right.

Made in Barcelona. Each work was photographed onto its own presentation plate, floated on a flat colour field with the title, city, medium and size set in small type beneath.

Three small white panels on a black ground, each carrying thin black lines and red dots; a printed credit line sits beneath. — THREE SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENT, acrylic on canvas and wood panel, 20,5x43 cm. Plate captioned Barcelona, 2020.

An upright canvas of dry-dragged black and red bars, turquoise spray and a thick red arc on white. — From the textured marks group, acrylic and spray on canvas.

RANDOM MARKS I II III IV is the loudest of the thirteen and the only one that is four objects. Four 30 by 30 canvases, sprayed rather than brushed, in red, yellow, blue and black, the same vocabulary as the rest of the group turned up until it reads as noise. They are shown here as a set, then one at a time, each named by the position it takes in the set.

Several of the paintings leaning unhung against a gallery wall, the four small spray squares propped on the floor beside them, two people walking past — Leaning in the room before the doors opened

YOU COMPOSED hung across six butted panels on a white gallery wall, a visitor standing close in front of it — YOU COMPOSED on the wall, Espronceda, November 2020

The long gallery wall with three of the white paintings hung in a row and one visitor standing at the far end — The long wall

They were hung that November at Espronceda, in the HYELTW? show, YOU COMPOSED across six butted panels on the long wall, the four RANDOM MARKS squares in a row above the doorway, the rest leaning in the room before the doors opened. The photographs at the end of this gallery are that week.

The four small spray-painted squares hung in a row high above a doorway, bright against the white wall — RANDOM MARKS I–IV, hung above the door

A visitor in a virtual reality headset with controllers raised, standing in front of YOU COMPOSED — The paintings shared the room with the VR work

The thirteen, all 2020: YOU COMPOSED, acrylic on wood panel, 99 x 177 cm TWENTY MARKS, acrylic on wood panel, 208,5 x 111,5 cm THREE SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENT, acrylic on canvas and wood panel, 20,5 x 43 cm ABSTRACT STORYTELLING, acrylic on wood panel, 200 x 207 cm WIDE DANCE OF ELEMENTS, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 60 cm RANDOM MARKS I II III IV, spray paint on canvas, 30 x 30 cm each TEXTURED MARKS, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 100 x 70 cm MULTIPLE COMPOSITION OF TEXTURED MARKS, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 80 x 60 cm DANS CU FOC, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 100 cm FIRST GEOMETRIC ORDER, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60 cm SECOND GEOMETRIC ORDER, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm THIRD GEOMETRIC ORDER, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm RANDOM MARKS ORIGINS, spray paint on canvas, 60 x 90 cm

Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas and wood panel
Materials: acrylic, spray paint, stretched canvas, wood panel
Dimensions: From 20,5 x 43 cm to 208,5 x 111,5 cm
Role: Artist
Creative direction: Diana Boier
Photography: Vittor Schetti
Exhibited: HYELTW?, Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, 2020