



In blow to, October 23 2019, 09:45 (www.rappler.com)
2019
In blow to, October 23 2019, 09:45 (www.rappler.com) presents Dashiell Manley's signature process at its most distilled: a canvas worked in watercolor pencil, acrylic, and enamel that holds the residue of a specific moment of digital consumption rather than a composed subject. Measuring 94 by 63.5 centimeters, the work belongs to Manley's ongoing series in which headlines and URLs function as both title and raw material, each painting timestamped to the precise minute at which the artist encountered a news article. The result is less an illustration of content than a record of attention, marking the psychological weight of absorbing information in a fragmented, accelerated media environment. Manley's layered approach to materials rewards close examination. The interplay of watercolor pencil's soft, granular marks against the harder surfaces of acrylic and enamel creates a visual tension that mirrors the dissonance between the intimacy of the artist's hand and the impersonal machinery of online news delivery. Color fields, smears, and linear passages accumulate into compositions that feel simultaneously spontaneous and controlled, charged with an emotional residue that the original headline could only gesture toward. Signed by the artist and offered through Jessica Silverman, this work represents a compelling entry point into one of the more conceptually rigorous painting practices to emerge from Los Angeles in recent years. Manley has attracted sustained critical attention for his ability to locate genuine painterly feeling within a rigorous conceptual framework, and works from this series have entered significant private and institutional collections. The modest scale and intimacy of this particular canvas make it an especially approachable example of a body of work that grows more resonant as the cultural conditions it documents continue to evolve.
- Medium
- Watercolor pencil, acrylic, and enamel on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Jessica SilvermanView on map
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