Matthew Kolakowski

  • June 2025

I have tried to undermine the authority of the gestural mark.

To question its legitimacy as a conveyer of meaning by transferring paint in a more mechanical and systematic process. In the layering and interweaving of lattices of colour I am trying to evoke patterns of interference. To coax and tease the eye into ambiguous spaces suggestive of broadcast static.

White Lattice
Mauve Sceptic
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