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The central area of each painting has been left in its gessoed prepared state, prompting a physical change in the manner in which the painting is viewed. The visible pictorial element is not a landscape painting but a painting of a postcard of a landscape – it is a painted impression of a flat surface. The road landscape, itself a loaded and evocative image leads the eye in, only to be confronted by the absence of image. A pull\/push exists. This area is not an entity ‘blocking’ the expected view, it is an absence of content – pictorially and metaphorically. There is enough of the familiar looking postcard image to evoke certain feelings of nostalgia and personal memories, while the absence presents a serious interruption in the aesthetic and the work shifts to be a consideration of what is not there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just as in Hiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s cinema photographs, a setting is provided, while the screen, or unpainted area conveys a story of all and nothing simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York artist – Steve Butcher. Artwork. minus space<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The central area of each painting has been left in its gessoed prepared state, prompting a physical change in the manner in which the painting is viewed. The visible pictorial element is not a landscape painting but a painting of a postcard of a landscape – it is a painted impression of a flat surface. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-425","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions\/4468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbutcher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}