Zak Prekop — "When looking at paintings, an awareness of material reality coincides with the perception of an interior, pictorial space, so a painting is looked both at and through. I work with this literally in many of my paintings where one actually sees through the semi-transparent canvas to its other side, so that looking into or through is again a process of perceiving real material, not only the kind of painterly space that has been constructed historically by conventions like the rectangle of stretcher bars or an oval framing in a portrait." Zak Prekop

"When looking at paintings, an awareness of material reality coincides with the perception of an interior, pictorial space, so a painting is looked both at and through. I work with this literally in many of my paintings where one actually sees through the semi-transparent canvas to its other side, so that looking into or through is again a process of perceiving real material, not only the kind of painterly space that has been constructed historically by conventions like the rectangle of stretcher bars or an oval framing in a portrait." Zak Prekop

Zak Prekop's triptych in oil on canvas investigates the dual nature of painting as both physical object and illusory space. Working with semi-transparent canvas, Prekop allows the viewer to literally see through to the reverse side of the support, collapsing the distinction between looking *at* and looking *through* a painting. The triptych format extends this inquiry across three panels, emphasizing the materiality of the canvas itself as the primary pictorial subject rather than any constructed or conventional painterly space.

Medium: triptych: oil on canvas
Spotted At: Auction House · Phillips

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Under the Influence

April 13, 2015

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