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Mollie Balshaw, Painting Sandwich #7 & #5, 2019

Artist: Mollie Balshaw

Title: Painting Sandwich #7 & #5

Year: 2019

Medium: Paint on cardboard

Accession Number: US2022-12A,B

Acquisition info:

Painting in the expanded field, Balshaw’s work extends beyond the traditional bounds and restrictions of painting, exploring the painting as an ‘object rather than an image’. They consider the deconstruction and reconstruction of structures and surfaces, applying and manipulating thick brushes of brightly coloured paint on – and in between – layers of cardboard in abstract gestures.

A close-up of the left-hand object. Orange paint is pressed between cardboard walls, it spills out, still layered like a globular stack of paper.
Mollie Balshaw, Painting Sandwich #7, 2019, Mixed Media. Courtesy the artist. Photograph courtesy of Sam Parker.
A close-up of the righthand object, course desaturated orange and cyan paint spills out from behind a cardboard curtain.
Mollie Balshaw, Painting Sandwich #5, 2019, Mixed Media. Courtesy the artist. Photograph courtesy of Sam Parker.