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Donald Moffett
Lot 042020 (fragment red), 2020Pigmented epoxy resin on wood panel support, steel19 x 18 1/2 x 5 3/4 inchesFurther images
In Donald Moffett's recent paintings, the canvas escapes its traditional confines of rectangular shape and connection with the wall. Extending forward into space on steel and wood panel supports, Moffett's...In Donald Moffett's recent paintings, the canvas escapes its traditional confines of rectangular shape and connection with the wall. Extending forward into space on steel and wood panel supports, Moffett's abstracted forms draw their shape from natural specimens, such as sea corals and oak leaves. The artist developed to precision their surfaces with a technique of pigmented and poured resin, at times glossy and others matte. Given their layers of visual appeal, the paintings subtly belie a core preoccupation with, as Moffett says, the "ILL" state of the environment.
"Covid holds the deadly logic of brute biology.
Where there is weakness there is opportunity.
The global sweep of the pandemic is a vivid marker of environmental peril.
Lot 042020 (fragment red) leans into these facts."
– Donald Moffett
