DENSITY SCARCITY Feature Artist: Matthew Whitney

 

This week's DENSITY SCARCITY Feature Artist is Matthew Whitney (Seattle, Washington.).

This series of drawings and paper-based experiments over the past several years form a body of explorations of the real - beyond representation and into that which is really real. These drawings incorporate walking and physical manipulations, excavating via mark making - understood as a point moving through space, which can be a mark made on paper, a series of illuminated pixels, or a body’s path made by going through a walk. The crumpled drawings began with the cliché of crumpling up the paper upon which one had started a bad drawing or had a bad idea, to toss in the wastebasket. Upon unfolding and attempting to flatten the paper, the paper’s original sharpness and crispness is lost, and one is left with a surface that is softened and flawed. The creases mark the surface and are impossible to avoid. Rather than begin a drawing with a fresh sheet of paper, I attempted to work with the flawed body, and work within the creases, indeed making them a vital part of the composition. These creases as well leave the drawing no longer flat but textured and 3-dimensional. The resulting drawings are evidence of a phenomenological existing, and are left to be considered as such.
-Matthew Whitney

@mattpwhitney
@exdrawp
@the_line_miami

DENSITY SCARCITY is a virtual exhibit on @spatial.io that runs through November 1, 2023.

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