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Ethan Cook — "I now see the loom as a canvas printer—as with a printer, there is error involved, those errors in the canvas become the gestures and the artist's hand and mark making." Ethan Cook, 2014

"I now see the loom as a canvas printer—as with a printer, there is error involved, those errors in the canvas become the gestures and the artist's hand and mark making." Ethan Cook, 2014

Ethan Cook constructs his paintings from the ground up, hand-weaving the cotton canvas itself before stretching it as a finished work. The irregular textures, subtle misalignments, and material imperfections inherent to the weaving process become the painting's gesture and mark, replacing the brushstroke with the loom. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work collapses the boundaries between craft, process, and painting.

Medium: hand woven cotton canvas, in artist's frame
Spotted At: Auction House · Phillips

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Under the Influence

March 4, 2015

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Ethan Cook, "I now see the loom as a canvas printer—as with a printer, there is error involved, those errors in the canvas become the gestures and the artist's hand and mark making." Ethan Cook, 2014

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hand woven cotton canvas, in artist's frame

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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

"I now see the loom as a canvas printer—as with a printer, there is error involved, those errors in the canvas become the gestures and the artist's hand and mark making." Ethan Cook, 2014

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