"You Would Smoke If There Were Any Cigarettes"
(Blue), 20" x 15"
Signed edition of 35
$250
Chris Succo focuses on surface treatment to create works that hover between abstraction and representation. Usually recognized for his layered white paintings made from spray-paint and lacquer, Succo has digitally altered his paintings for these two works on canvas. “You Would Smoke If There Were Any Cigarettes” and “The Rest of Your Stuff You Leave On” were created by extracting color from source photography and "remixing" high resolution images of his paintings with gestural marks from the touch of an iPad. The artist has titled each piece after phrases from "Boat People", a novella by Bill Powers, and the colorful edges of each canvas contain a repeated, angular line–the artist's digitized signature.
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