James Greco

I am a conceptualist whose work with and against the cliche of abstract painting has developed into a form I call Abrstract Disillusionism. The best representation of this form can be seen in my ongoing series of paintings entitled, Death Blows.

These paintings are at once an homage and elegy to the death of abstract painting, a dialogue with its history and form. The heavy swathe of matte black that dominates each - the death blow - functions multidimensionally. It is both positive and negative. It is at once a blot, a wound, a scar, an opening, a hole, a void, exposing as much as it obscures. It draws attention to the uselessness of the painting beneath it, even as it enhances that painting. Before the work receives a death blow, it is antiquated - painterly, nostalgic and gestural. The blow destroys those qualities, and eliminates the possibility for further engagement with any romantic decision - making.

4 works, mixed media on panel, framed in stainless  steel

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James Greco
Deathblow - 0796

45"x48" latex, acrylic and pencil on wood panel,
framed in stainless steel

James Greco
Deathblow - 11

45"x48" latex, acrylic and pencil on wood panel,
framed in stainless steel

James Greco
Deathblow -7

45"x48" latex, acrylic and pencil on wood panel,
framed in stainless steel

James Greco
Deathblow - 9

45"x48" latex, acrylic and pencil on wood panel,
framed in stainless steel