Overview
Blake Rayne's paintings stem from the generativeĀ duplicity of words like Script, Folder, Application,Ā Dissolve, and Screen. These operative termsĀ situate the work between forms of linguisticĀ description and the history of reflexive materialĀ practices in art. He begins from an orientationĀ that considers the terms āpainterā andĀ āpaintingā as fictions. They have no stableĀ material definition, but rather are shaped byĀ evolving social, institutional, and physicalĀ relations. Conceived as a work, this monograph covers theĀ last ten years of the artist's output and culminatesĀ in his first survey exhibition at the Blaffer ArtĀ Museum in Houston, Texas. Shifting sequences of varying material treatments guide us through the linguistic, institutional, and physical relationsĀ that have shaped Rayne's painting practice. The book is united under the structuring sign of cinema, with each sectionĀ existing like a shot in a film, if you will, that is necessarily informed by and in dialogue with those that come before andĀ after it. The main essays by John Kelsey and Jaleh Mansoor respectively situate Rayne's art within the urban culturalĀ circumstances of New York during the last decade, and his specific position as a painter in relation to other painters ofĀ his generation, such as Cheyney Thomson. Mansoor further skillfully places the artist in a wider historical context.Ā Shorter texts by gallerist David Lewis, artists Laura Owens and Sean Paul, as well as curator Javier SĆ”nchez MartĆnez,Ā illuminate other aspects of Rayne's work, and weave together a range of ideas and tones, from the history of corporateĀ design to the rise of automation; from a lighthearted intervention about āThe Rule of Blakeā to a museum catalogueĀ introduction.
This book title, Tense and Spaced Out (Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos, and the Ecology of Misery), ISBN: 9783956793264, by Blake Rayne, Katherine Pickard, Tim Saltarelli, published by MIT Press (October 23, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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