georgetown curve georgetown ontario 1994 andy patton
Outside of Georgetown I found an abandoned industrial building. I made a long painting there, and successfully avoided being arrested. I’m not sure that it shows in a photograph, but I attempted to make the painting recede in the centre, as though the painting section of the wall bent away from you in the middle. I was surprised to see that sometimes it looked this way—the darker area would seem to recede. But sometimes it flipped—the darker areas would appear to advance because they were so much more intense and saturated. Like the Grand Valley Silo, the painting is made with coat after coat of very dilute acrylic paint. It was more than 60 coats where it’s darkest — and something like 25 where it is lightest. I used two different shades of the same Golden Phthalo Blue acrylic pigment: a red shade and a green shade. The whole painting looked blue but had it had internal contrasts that acted on the eye and made the experience perceptually intense.
When I was doing those works, I felt as though I were nurturing abandoned buildings.
Georgetown Curve, 1994, 7 feet x 70 feet, acrylic on concrete
photo courtesy of the artist
ANDY PATTON is a painter who lives in Toronto. He represented Canada in the Fifth Biennale of Sydney. His text paintings were included in ‘The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art’ in Xi’an in 2014 and Beijing in 2015. https://www.andypatton.ca
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