Fabulations, 2006-12

Oil on Museum Postcards

Fabulations begins with a reproduction image of a work by American painter Robert Ryman, from the Dia Foundation in New York. The painting is photographed (by artist Bill Jacobson) in a way that is sympathetic the work’s occupation of space and its tape fixings, but which nevertheless renders the painting almost a blank white space, a blank slate for imagining Ryman paintings both real and fictional. In a series of just over 100 small paintings, seen, described and imagined Ryman paintings are produced, which draw attention to the transformation of the artist’s work through the reproduced image.