NYAB Event - Rebecca Watson Horn "Rub it in"

Rebecca Watson Horn "Rub it in"

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Cut, sprayed, and scraped, mudlike layers of pigment (Mudlike is too specific--many of the works are practically nothing)

R.W. Horn's engagement with painting is almost as forensic as it is aesthetic. Her work is fabricated debris; her surfaces are rubbed into themselves,

more skin than stage, (maybe more wood and burlap than either of those things (more plastic spray-painted fingerprints and seaweed))

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Action is character."

(William Carlos Williams wrote, "[imagination] seems to destroy us.") In these works ("it is only in isolate flecks that") texture is history ("something / is given off")

(Rub it in.)