Evan Read
Dusty Spot Seriers, 2018
My new inkjet prints on paper combine ideas from two past sets of work. Packing an array of ovals into a rectangle goes back to paintings I did in the mid-90s, but here I’ve updated the idea with digital manipulations developed in a very different recent series. In the earlier work, the hard-edged ovals remained distinct from one another, but here the clusters of now soft-focused ovals, with color shifts at the edges, begin to merge and suggest new readings. The loosely cellular shapes provide a platform for a re-introduction of a richer color palette, after several years of working with stitch-like line patterns on flat fields. The new attention to color is beautifully highlighted by the delicately textured Japanese Kozo paper. http://www.evanread.net
