Common Love,
Aesthetics of Becoming
April 27–June 11, 2011
Marc Handelman
Force Multiplier, 2008
Oil on canvas
67 x 54 in.
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Similarly to his work Tomorrow's Forecast: Strikingly Clear on view in this exhibition, Marc Handelman's abstracted and layered paintings of sunsets reveal the manipulation and corruption of natural resources for political aims. The artist's transfer technique not only speaks to the latter, but also recalls the idealistic view of untamed nature adopted by the Hudson River School. In an artist statement, he explains that the landscape imagery and corporate logos are "essentially...the same thing, part of a similar kind of speech. Beyond their both being part of corporate representation, I have thought about both of these kinds of images as modes of masking or veneers, but the correspondence is more poetic, more visual, and in these paintings more material."