Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters, Chapter 8
2007
Silkscreen ink, gesso on wood
50.8 x 50.8 cm (20 x 20 in.)
The truncated abstract motif rising up from the lower frame of Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters, Chapter 8 is not only beautiful, but also evokes the rationality of the machine. It stands out against a grooved background with vibrating rhythms, with only a discreet, slanting shadowy, line interrupting the flatness.
This work by R.H. Quaytman combines the photographic realism of the figurative subject with the pictorial process of the silkscreen technique. It belongs to a larger, eponymously titled series she considers a "chapter" that is both autonomous and interdependent with the other series she designs. These "images of thought," as she calls them, are like fragments of a larger whole connected by formal, narrative, poetic and metaphorical relationships.
Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters, Chapter 8 was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the "Luogo e Segni" ("Place and Signs") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2019.
This work by R.H. Quaytman combines the photographic realism of the figurative subject with the pictorial process of the silkscreen technique. It belongs to a larger, eponymously titled series she considers a "chapter" that is both autonomous and interdependent with the other series she designs. These "images of thought," as she calls them, are like fragments of a larger whole connected by formal, narrative, poetic and metaphorical relationships.
Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters, Chapter 8 was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the "Luogo e Segni" ("Place and Signs") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2019.
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Photo: Jeffrey Sturges
©R. H. QUAYTMAN
