Blake Rayne Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery
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Blake Rayne’s second exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery revolves around a number of paintings, each of which results from a standard operation of construction. Rayne unfolds, primes, folds and directs an aerosol spray of pigment onto a roll of linen from which sections are then chosen, sewn and cropped into a consistent scale. Rayne’s paintings, which situate themselves between a history of reflexive material procedures and structures of linguistic description, produce the canvas as a site of conflict between an impossible autonomy and a dispersed referentiality. If Rayne doubles the readymade weave of his canvas in a textile patterning, one whose folding and merging he chromatically designates, then these paintings are also textualized as scripts of production: displacing material process into the flat, graphic space of linguistic signs.
[Image: Blake Rayne “Untitled Painting No. 2” (2008) Gesso, acrylic, linen and lacquer on wood 91 ½ x 63 ¾ in.]
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Schedule
from March 23, 2008 to May 18, 2008