Paul Bloodgood "Thing Language"
Newman Popiashvili Gallery
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In this new body of work, Bloodgood continues a practice of copying and re-copying pieces of his own works and others to make small collages and then oil studies that become templates for the larger abstract paintings that are exhibited in the show.
The abstraction that reveals itself in Bloodgood's paintings is a result of his serial approach to the paintings; first cartooning all the supports so that each painting starts as a re-iteration of the original collage, but then taking various structural elements of the collages - the torn edges, cut-lines, Xerox colors, and the grid itself - and re-applying them in more eccentric or arbitrary manner.
The title of the show Thing Language derives from a chapbook of poetry written in 1964 by the San Francisco poet and linguist Jack Spicer. Spicer's presentation of his poetic practice as an act of dictation and his insistence on a primacy of a language outside of and opposed to self-expression, offers a meaningful parallel to Bloodgood's interests in a practice of abstract painting that doesn't speak of identity, but of correspondence to elements outside of the painting itself - like dictated poetry. This is typical of Bloodgood's career-long practice of creatively engaging with a usable past in order to build new models of abstraction.
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from May 08, 2010 to June 19, 2010