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Catalog Number |
2004.16 |
Title |
Re-Wind |
Artist |
Pomara, John |
Date |
1998 |
Medium |
Oil/Enamel/Verathana/Canvas |
Material |
Canvas/Oil/Oil Paint |
Dimensions |
H-78 W-59 inches |
Accession number |
2004.16 |
Description |
"Re-Wind" is one of four large paintings the artist produced using a technique that he has perfected in dragging enamel paint across the canvas using a Plexiglas "squeegee". The image on this painting originally derived from photomicrographs of living cells, which the artist manipulated through photocopying techniques. He then carefully painted the image with enamel paint onto the surface of the canvas, which had been coated with white paint and verathane. The artist then dragged a Plexiglas straightedge through the painted shapes, creating the blurred effect, which seems both biological and mechanical. John Pomara (1952) is a professor of visual arts in the School of Arts and Humanities and produces art that is unique to the digital age. Although originally derived from photomicrographs of living cells, the artist’s abstract disks have pursued an independent evolution for several years, attending more to modes of representing than to the vagaries of their source per se. What was biological information has become a gestural mark, embedded both in the fluid sensuality of his medium and in the current history of painterly mark-making conceived as immediate evidence of the artist’s hand. |
Caption |
Re-Wind |
Culture |
American |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Smith, Jane |
Credit Line |
Purchase, General Acqusition Fund with funds donated by Amy and Vernon Faulconer |
Source |
Faulconer, Vernon and Amy;; Faulconer, Vernon and Amy |