SURFACE PICTURE / WHITE SANDS

PLYWOOD
STUDIO VIEW. PART OF ONGOING SERIES

SURFACE PICTURE / WHITE SANDS is a series of pictures that bring together a number of key interests into a single abstract image. The pictures reference landscape painting, satellite technologies, and 20th century art history.

The pictures are based on satellite images of the White Sands Missile Range, a testing facility in the New Mexico desert. These source images, seen from above, record a century of mark making on the landscape. In these works, the uniform surface of the plywood is interrupted through mechanical processes, echoing the mark of the pencil, brush or rocket.