THE legendary skateboarder and prolific artist Mark Gonzales paints the way he skates -- exuberantly, on whatever surface he can find: canvas, construction paper, sawed-off skateboards, a bowler hat that his girlfriend, the fashion stylist Heathermary Jackson, gave him.
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These are young men who sweat the difference between super 110 and super 130, who take seriously the difference between full- and half-canvas construction, who demand hand-stitched lapels, who get aroused by patch pockets.
The benefits of full-canvas construction include attention to detail, durability and a freer and more natural appearance.
These works, which are suspended from the ceiling, nod to the galactic wire-and-canvas constructions of Lee Bontecou.
She moved from primitive and mysterious canvas-covered constructions to much-softer more-fluid creations of natural forms, such as fish and giant flowers, often using plastic that reflects rather than absorbs light.
An interesting abstract pairing is Josef Albers's rigorously geometric "Study to Homage for the Square" (1958), next to the untitled, idiosyncratic canvas-and-metal construction with a strange circular opening made by Lee Bontecou the next year.
His preferred extreme-heat pants are a loose, light canvas with as little construction as possible.
With a new series of work on canvas, he depicts realistic building constructions, which include elements that spell out words, such as "oops".
Mr. Short prints photocopies of photocopies of a single blank sheet of colored construction paper, makes slide images of patterns accidentally produced, projects each slide onto a canvas, then painstakingly traces the enlarged pattern.
Hurtling back for a Djokovic lob, his legs went from under him on the sappy grass, his racket sailed up in the air and landed on him and his left knee struck the solid construction behind the canvas back-stop.
