Tense and Spaced Out - Polar Nights, Glacial Chaos, and the Ecology of Misery

American artist Blake Raynes (b. 1969) approach to painting stems from the duplicity of words like script, folder, application, dissolve and screen. These operative terms situate his work between forms of linguistic description and the history of reflexive material practices in art. He begins from an orientation that considers the terms painter and painting as fictions with no stable material definition, shaped by always evolving social, institutional and physical relations. Published in conjunction with Raynes first survey exhibition, Cabin of the Accused at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX (2017), Tense and Spaced Out spans Raynes work over the last decade, featuring long-form essays by Sean Paul, Jaleh Mansoor, Javier Snchez Martnez and John Kelsey, and shorter statements by Laura Owens and David Lewis. The publication also includes documentation of the exhibition by a group of local high school students and a magazine dedicated to Raynes 2013 book-object Almanac.

Abordarea artistului american Blake Raynes (n. 1969) a picturii provine din duplicitatea cuvintelor precum scenariu, folder, aplicatie, dizolvare si ecran.