The original support of the painting under study is also a (single piece) plain-weave canvas.
Off at once goes Suchet to weave some canvas himself.
An earlier interest in weaving and in the physical givens of painting -- woven (cotton) canvas, for example -- is what led him to cotton balls in the first place.
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"Beneath her tiny grids there was another tiny grid — the weave of the canvas," he said.
It consists of flat vertical stitches laid parallel with the canvas weave rather than crossing the intersections diagonally as in most canvas stitches.
The opalescent colors, fluid paint handling and sensitivity to the canvas weave were all beyond question, he said.
But the crucial sculptural value is present in the canvas weave itself - whose rough nubbly texture, whose burly Braille, is like unpolished granite.
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The exhibition takes its name from a week-long Susan Hiller performance in 1980, in which the artist unravelled the weave of a canvas thread by thread.
More soberly, Anne Appleby's subtly sensuous monochrome panels recall early Brice Marden and Edda Renouf's abstractions emphasize the weave of the canvas.
