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" … In Lasker’s work, images … are part of a larger schema, but independent in terms of form, colour, texture, and manner of paint application. Each image becomes a thing itself, an element to be examined, experienced and categorized; a component of the larger grammatical structure that Lasker has built.” – Richard Kalina
- Jonathan Lasker: Coloured Scribbles28 FEBRUARY - 27 MARCH 2004
All these paintings begin as a set of postcard size drawings in which Lasker experiments with the placement of shapes and colours. When one drawing is finally selected, the large painting on canvas faithfully magnifies and replicates the drawing, allowing for surprising shifts in scale and mark-making.
(This could be another approach to creating works. Currently I am making each work one by one and allowing my experimental side to do the work. There isn't really a strict sense of planning in my method of producing works, but more of a response to each work I have previously made and creating relationships between them, in terms of shape color, and gestures.)
There is always extreme contrast in Lasker’s paintings. Giant primary-coloured brush-strokes, loaded with gooey paint, fight against flat, dry, linear grids with the complexity and clarity of computer graphics. None of the thick splurges of paint attempt expression, instead each stroke exalts handmade, technical virtuosity that can approximate machine-made precision.
(I am interested in meticulously constructing images which are experimental and play with a range of textures, such as thick and thin string, and different gestural brush strokes that have a sense of experimentation and some control, repetition and link back to the movement of the hand. )
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