Another Painting (Leaves)
Mark Flood's *Another Painting (Leaves)* combines spray paint, acrylic, and actual leaves pressed onto canvas, blending organic natural materials with the raw, urban energy of street art techniques. The work plays with ideas of chance and control, allowing the irregular forms of the leaves to disrupt and inform the painted surface beneath them. Flood's signature irreverence is evident in the piece's casual title, which simultaneously undercuts and elevates the act of painting itself.
- Medium
- spray paint, leaves, acrylic on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
April 8, 2014
Artists in conversation
Rauschenberg Robert
American · b. 1925
Rauschenberg pioneered the incorporation of natural and found materials directly onto painted canvas surfaces, blending organic elements with gestural mark making in a way that mirrors Flood's combination of pressed leaves and spray paint. His Combines series similarly disrupts the boundary between painting and the physical world with conceptual irreverence.
Andy Goldsworthy
British · b. 1956
Goldsworthy works directly with leaves, branches, and other botanical materials as primary artistic media, treating natural forms as both subject and material in a manner closely aligned with Flood's use of actual leaves pressed onto canvas. Both artists foreground the organic irregularity of natural materials as a generative force within the composition.
Christopher Wool
American · b. 1955
Wool applies spray paint and stenciling techniques onto canvas with a raw, urban sensibility that strongly echoes Flood's street art influenced approach and casual conceptual framing. Both artists use painting itself as a subject of critique while maintaining a visually compelling abstract surface.
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