These large scale paintings are reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko’s color field painting. Color field painters merged figure and ground. This was a style that attempted to connect modern mysticism to primordial emotions in ancient myth, doing away with the figure. Appropriating clothing labels to make art is a legitimate form of borrowing or re-contextualization used by artists such as Picasso and Duchamps. Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup labels come to mind.
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