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STATEMENT OF WORK
Mark Crawford (born Chicago, Il) is a minimalist abstract painter whose work explores visual abstract space and examines its attributes by employing simple geometric structures and color relationships. The color and drawing is used to create rhythmic compositional structures that are articulated through both the color and the physicality of the paintings’ surfaces. The colors function as spatial units or units of light and direct sensation that articulate the paintings’ underlying compositional organization, creating a spatial logic that challenges the viewer to explore and question the perceptual process.
His paintings are non-referential as traditionally understood. They are things-in-themselves and are a critique of the spectacle oriented, saturated and de-factualized media environment that exists today. Simply put, the paintings are organized around the perceptual process and eschew symbolic, imagistic/poetic, social or psychological readings, so viewers can experience a direct connection to the process of seeing in the immediate present, as space organizes itself in the field of vision.