RAY BULL (AMERICAN B. 1990)
Magazine
2015
oil on canvas
244 x 183 cm

Provenance:
Ana Cistea Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2015

Exhibition History:
New York, Ana Cristea Gallery, Ray Bull Get Up With It, 18 June - 17 July 2015

Artist Description:
Ray Bull’s paintings speak to the impossibility of abstraction in painting. His compositions consistently straddle the line between representation and abstraction. Like magic, they unhinge our ability to settle on what the thing is. We are looking at an image of abstraction, a representation. Ray Bull’s works on canvas spring directly from a dedicated practice in drawing. With a strict adherence to a monochromatic palate, he showcases a style of mark making that seem less interested in expression and more interested in their own form. The paintings are a constant oscillation of expression into shape, shape into picture and picture into image.