Lyndon Barrois Jr.
Print Preview, 2024
Solvent transfers, chipboard, collage, oil-tined solvent transfer on copper, primed linen mounted to panel, artist’s frame
38.1 x 48.3 cm
15 x 19 in
15 x 19 in
The CMYK system, the backbone of print, relies on four elemental hues—Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black—to summon images out of whiteness. This subtractive alchemy strips red, green, and blue from...
The CMYK system, the backbone of print, relies on four elemental hues—Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black—to summon images out of whiteness. This subtractive alchemy strips red, green, and blue from light itself, echoing the ways our world so often pares down complexity into narrow frames. What results is a language that flattens, that compresses identities and cultural textures into simplified surfaces. The work comments on racial hierarchy and colorism as a narrow and constructed reality.
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Courtesy of Alma Pearl Gallery
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