As | 2020
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
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Detail of installation 'As' at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
‘As’ by Della Gooden (detail)
'As' by Della Gooden at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton. Exhibition HARDPAINTING X2
‘As’ at Phoenix Art Space Brighton
Installation by Della Gooden (left) and Tectonic Plates by John Carter in Hard Painting x2 at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton.
Della Gooden (foreground ‘Tectonic Plates’ by John Carter)
Della Gooden (left) Tess Jaray (right) at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton
Della Gooden (left) Tess Jaray (right)

‘As’

Part painting, part drawing and part structure. A large, white, gesso plane formed the painting’s ground (and was almost indistinguishable from the white wall). On top of the the gesso ground was a Prussian Blue rectangle, with a modulated surface. Down its right-hand side the blue paint was worked more translucently along the whole edge (in contrast to the very flat, severe edge on the left) – this paler, brighter blue overshot the bottom, pluming down and outwards. The white panel was hung in an offset position on top of both these elements and a graphite line at the bottom left reached out to the left and down towards the floor.

INFO

Materials: Prussian blue rectangle painted inside a large, white, rectangular gesso plane (not really picked up by the camera) all painted directly on the wall + graphite (‘line 36’) + an offset, white, wooden block. Dimensions: 195 x 85 x 4.5cm

Essays commissioned for the catalogue are here (introductory essay ‘Hard Painting’ not yet loaded).

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