Made of Matter
Made of Matter · 2006 · Oil Paint · 20 x 16 x 0.125 in.
A brooding portrait rendered in deep teal and black, with expressionistic brushwork dissolving the figure into the raw ground.
- Medium
- Oil Paint
- Substrate
- Canvas
- Dimensions
- 20 x 16 x 0.125 in.
- Edition
- Unique
- Status
- Available
- Inventory
- AX-2006-001
- Scale
Drawn to scale from the recorded dimensions, against a sofa. Not a photograph of an installation.
From the series Hives, Bombs & Jellyfish
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Made of Matter (2006) presents a frontal portrait emerging from a warm, unpainted ground through loose, gestural strokes of deep teal, black, and grey. The figure's face is rendered with an economy of mark; dark, contemplative eyes, a softly defined nose and mouth; while the surrounding form breaks apart into fragmented planes of color and exposed canvas. White highlights carve light across the forehead and jaw, lending the face a sculptural, almost mineral quality. The title suggests a meditation on materiality and physical existence: the figure is not fully formed but rather in the process of becoming, assembled from pigment and surface as much as from flesh. The unresolved edges and layered erasures reinforce this sense of matter in flux. Signed 'Axioma '06' in the lower right.