In a 2015 article in The Brooklyn Rail, artist and writer Tom McGlynn described the work of Stephen Maine as follows:
“Maine has an obvious formal control over his palette, due to a long-standing investigation of color, translucency, and the influence of color on the virtually shifting tectonics of “painting space”… This is a key to his practice. Color can directly engage the physiological mechanism of the eye while simultaneously initiating a string of associative logic in one’s random memory, and Maine’s paintings approach a critical boiling point at the admixture of optical reaction and the accidental, yet uncannily recognizable gesture.”
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Thank for your interest in P15 - 1028 by Stephen Maine, proposed by IDEELART. The asking price is currently 1650 GBP (£)
In a process closely akin to relief printmaking, Maine uses textured surfaces to apply fluid acrylic paint indirectly to prepared canvas. He makes these surfaces or “plates,” some of which are quite large, out of common materials such as plywood, extruded foam, plastic and glue. Integral to the process is the idea that the entire surface is treated with paint at the same moment. For Maine that means compositional phenomena are allowed to occur with minimal interference from his ego.
Usually Maine starts with a glaze for the ground color, but in this case he opted for opacity—the ground is a dense, somewhat maudlin orange. He worked from darker to lighter colors, which is the opposite of the usual printmaking procedure.
Often, he likes to do things the wrong way.
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About The Artist
Stephen Maine is an American abstract painter who developed an incredible process of art making that in return enables him to crea....Read More
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