The last edition of The Kick-About was inspired by James Turrell’s immersive light installations. Lee Krasner, like Turrell, invites us to inhabit her work—but hers is no ethereal space. Instead, it’s a restless terrain of reinvention. Enjoy this latest collection of ‘new works made in a short time’ and why not browse all previous editions of The Kick-About here.
Charly Skilling
“The flowing lines and circles, and limited colour palettes of Lee Krasner’s work prompted me to try out a paint technique I had seen but had never used. The following images were produced by using acrylic paint on different types of paper or card. The paint is applied by means of a balloon . partially inflated and containing some water, for added weightI am really excited by the marks and shapes this process creates – (remember, I have a very quiet life normally) and will be exploring this further.”
Ashley
“This is a print I made some time between 2000 and 2005 when my wife and I went on a weekend printing course in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. A creative weekend neither of us will ever forget and in a location that we would have loved to live in. For this exercise, the artist taking the course asked us to be spontaneous and just allow our subconscious to create something. It was done so long ago that I no longer remember the actual printing process involved and now, for me, that simply adds to the pleasure of seeing it again! I want to go printing again!”
Vanessa Clegg
“Of course I left it till the last minute and am now away staying with a friend so no art materials at hand. However, my bedroom here has a natty patterned rug and the hot water bottle seemed to echo Lee Krasner’s ‘little image paintings and ‘white squares’, so I photographed them in X-ray and here they are! Would’ve been good to start earlier at home and played around with charcoal, but had to think a bit laterally this time.”
vanessaclegg.co.uk / vanillaclegg
James Randall
“For some reason this KA didn’t lift off very well – so sorry Lee Krasner I failed you – and her big pic – the seasons – is one of my favourites! Anyhow after fiddling about with dry ground pigments and layered photos I just went back to an Adobe Illustrator illustration taken into photoshop layered with photos for texture – wanted a layer of scribbles on top to scratch up the image, but after not saving five hours of work and redoing that I ran out of time so here is the not quite finished first draft!“
Phil Gomm
“So this Krasner-inspired ‘mosaic’ is about the size of a dinner plate and was made by bashing a bunch of chunky wax crayons with a rolling pin and then setting them within the confines of a rusty metal hoop I found behind our wheelie bins. I sited the hoop and crushed crayons on a sheet of acetate, and made a deep collar of acetate around the edge of the hoop, like I was making a cheesecake. Next I mixed up a pint or so of filler and poured the whole lot over the top of the broken crayons and allowed it to dry over a few days. Off came the acetate collar and then I had this mosaicked disc. It was fun and instinctive way to embrace Krasner’s work.”
philgomm.com / behance.net/Phil_Gomm
Kerfe Roig
“Krasner worked in so many different ways it was hard to choose one to focus on. I ended up doing an homage to her”Little Image” grid paintings in stitching, mostly because when I was in the storage room looking for something else, I found some little fabric rectangles I had backed with fiberfill (left over from a project done long ago) and this shimmery black fishnet fabric bought for some unknown purpose, also long ago. I thought they made a good base for the feeling I got from Krasner’s paintings. And you know I love grids.”
kblog.blog / methodtwomadness.wordpress.com
Francesca Maxwell
“I am a great admirer of Lee Krasner’s work and regularly show her work to my students during my “Figuration to Abstraction” class. I particularly love her collages. They are so bold and brave and uncompromising. Playful and challenging at the same time. I have tried my own homage to her with this, ripping old paintings and reassembling them into a new form. I am quite busy these days or I would have done more explorations. But, as usual with these marvellous Kick About and the creations of the most talented group of people, I feel very inspire and will continue to work on these ideas.”
Graeme Daly
“It’s funny that sometimes I find myself finding random ephemera that gets me thinking “this could be a thing for the Kick About”. This time that thing is a bunch of coloured yarn and a piece of coloured cloth that I photographed with my iPhone. Although much softer than Krasner’s pieces I preferred shoving my iPhone into the yarn and cloth to soften the output rather than having it known that it is indeed just some yarn and cloth!”
@graemedalyart / vimeo.com/graemedaly / linkedin.com/in/graeme-daly / twitter.com/Graeme_Daly / gentlegiant.ie
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