Union

THERE IS NO
MISTAKE. These
are paintings. No gerrymandering
over medium here. But
if we resurrect an old debate, hyperbolize the
issue, all too hastily, before renewing our commitment
to painting, this is only to emphasize
the absurdity this discourse allows: an absurdity
embedded in paint.1
From here, these ten artists
wield a precarious force. Their
works are not hybrids & they
know it.2 & yet, crucially, these
artists are aware that there are
other possibilities in painting,
& in art—that paintingas-
painting in this
pointedly traditional,
non-serial & non-performative
sense is a corner—and they
are going in.3
A WELL-KNOWN ARTIST
recently remarked that an image
ink-jetted onto paper would be a photograph;
the same image printed the same way on wood would be a sculpture; & the same image, printed
the same way, on canvas, would be a painting.4