Feel Better, 2012, acrylic and oil paint, high-density and upholstery foam on canvas, 93 x 132 x 8 inches.
It is so elaborately constructed that you overlook its surreal quality, as jagged angles and a spiraling composition keep the eye engaged despite the painting's density and scale.
Rather than use a brush, I use squeeze bottles of liquid paint of various densities.
Surveys have related mean blood lead concentrations to exogenous sources, including industrial activity, use of lead-based paints, or traffic density.
The rich color, density of paint and compositional inventiveness of Majumdar's work go against trends that favor the lazy and the formulaic on one hand or novelty and overweening newness on the other.
Rower tells Creators that the show's title, Compression, "refers to the density created when paintings are painted over and over again.
Sean Scully's big abstracts retain much more than a memory of experienced architecture, but they relate to the human body too, and there is something wonderfully invigorating about the measured density with which their paint brings them into the world.
Bellows was no abstractionist — he borrowed forms from the masters, and his techniques are a kind of homespun Impressionism — but these early paintings contain fascinating hints of the limits of painting in confrontation with the incommensurable density of modern experience.
The show begins with "In the Ten Directions" (1996), a work that brought to mind R. B. Kitaj, who has long painted works that have a similar density of pattern, people and puzzlement.
Pest infestations, mold and mildew, water damage, peeling paint, leaks, rotting wood, and high residential density were widespread, with multiple problems occurring in the vast majority of homes.
