As a trained photographer, Kassay has translated many of photography’s essential techniques and concepts into his painting practice. In
A luminous, mirror-like surface defines this work by Jacob Kassay, in which acrylic and silver deposit on canvas blur the boundary between painting and photography. The reflective, electroplated surface captures and shifts with ambient light, implicating the viewer and surrounding environment as active elements of the composition. Kassay's process draws on photographic concepts of exposure and chemical development, translating them into a painterly language that is at once material and ephemeral.
- Medium
- acrylic and silver deposit on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Evening Sale
July 2, 2014
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“It often reminds me of the autofocus of a digital camera, which doesn’t know what to do with a silver painting’s surface when I’m trying to document the work. It goes in and out, unable to separate the painting’s present surroundings from the object itself.” JACOB KASSAY
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