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“Erasing Sean Scully”

February 12th, 2008

This is the first painting in a series I’m calling “ERASURES”.  It’s done in acrylic on canvas and was motivated by a work that the artist Robert Rauschenberg created in 1953.  There’s a terrific video of how he created the work on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCWh3IFtDQ

I created a painting a few years ago that was influenced by the artist Sean Scully’s “wall of Light” series.  I never quite finished it and left it in my studio for several years.  I would look at it from time to time, and eventually it struck me.  Why not “erase” it.  I used what I call “willem deKooning’s palette” and “erased” the original painting leaving a remembrance of the orignal. 

Here is the painting.

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