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Under Erasure
28 Jun, 2022 - 22 Jul, 2022
Martos Gallery is pleased to present Under Erasure, an exhibition of recent, non-figurative painting. The title Under Erasure is a reference to Derrida used by Marcia Hafif (1929-2018) in her 1978 Art Forum essay, 鈥淏eginning Again,鈥� where she considers the fraught circumstance of painting and how to move forward from it. In the essay, Hafif states: The enterprise of painting was in question, was "under erasure." I use this term of Derrida's (2) to denote a state in which painting appeared to be no longer relevant, not quite right, and yet the only possible activity for one who has been or is a painter - an artist deriving satisfaction from painting, drawings, the ordering of space, with a sensibility directed to paint, to pencil, to materials in general. But there was no dialogue, no discourse.
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