Loaded: Paintings & Paperworks
Leigh Martin's viscous materials, electric pigments and their syrupy behaviour push his luminous paintings well out from the wall. Martin's material is overwelmingly evident though its process is not. Dripping over the egdes of their ladden supports the layers of resin and pigment present a kind of chromatic and material excess.
Whilst the constructed architecture of the supports that painters such as Robert Ryman's and Gunter Umberg build carefully negotiate a considered relationship to the wall, Martins,...
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