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Doubt is a productive force in Montréal-based artist Malcolm McCormick’s practice, moving the process forward rather than halting it. One step forward, two steps forward, in built-up layers of abandoned iterations. The final simplicity of each painting is underlined by a history of marks and colours, sometimes visible through a fog of glazed-on paint, at other times invisibly informing the successive layers. As McCormick often builds his painting stretchers in separate interlocking ‘panels’, the layered surfaces are disrupted by constructed marks like hairlines, scarring and dividing the image plane. Visual space in the works is implied through these diagonals and arching curves, rather than through their painted surfaces; a paradox that further complicates painting’s status as both image and object. The permanent compositional lines serve as a guardrail against the artist’s desire to endlessly rework the surface, a countermeasure for the consuming doubt that drives the work. This...More
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Doubt is a productive force in Montréal-based artist Malcolm McCormick’s practice, moving the process forward rather than halting it. One step forward, two steps forward, in built-up layers of abandoned iterations. The final simplicity of each painting is underlined by a history of marks and colours, sometimes visible through a fog of glazed-on paint, at other times invisibly informing the successive layers. As McCormick often builds his painting stretchers in separate interlocking ‘panels’, the layered surfaces are disrupted by constructed marks like hairlines, scarring and dividing the image plane. Visual space in the works is implied through these diagonals and arching curves, rather than through their painted surfaces; a paradox that further complicates painting’s status as both image and object. The permanent compositional lines serve as a guardrail against the artist’s desire to endlessly rework the surface, a countermeasure for the consuming doubt that drives the work. This...More
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