Paintings and other Things: the Paintings, 2010

Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London

A show of paintings in alkyd and epoxy resin on mild steel, ranging from 360 x 230 cm down to 96 x 69 cm, augmented by three works on paper, each 195 x 120 cm, and a metal ball.

The works on paper are low-relief casts of a latex cast of an abraded metal painting support. At each iteration the latex was stretched, making the marks initially made in the metal grow and distort. The cooper work is 1:1 scale to the metal original, the aluminium 110%, and the graphite 120%. When being stretched to 130% the latex ripped in half.

The final painting in the show—with its ruby full stop—was the source for the photographs in follow-up exhibition, Other Things.

More eccentric documentation of the exhibition is available here.

A number of previous works on abraded steel supports were brought together in a book, Damian Taylor: Paintings, designed by John Morgan studio and published by the gallery, featuring essays by Bernice Donszelmann and David Ryan.