Recent Paintings by Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
My work uses the rough materiality of plaster relief, embedded and intertwined with bits of imagery painted in oil, as a metaphor for the geography of political violence. I cast the supports for my paintings using Hydrocal mixed with other materials. The casting process is explosive and unpredictable; the painting process regains control and imposes visual order. The work is neither abstract nor literally narrative.

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Wasteland



Burning Heap, Blue Sky



Burning Heap, Blue Sky - detail



Surface-to-Air: Americans in Iraq



Surface-to-Air: Americans in Iraq - detail



Lebanon, July, 2006



Near the Airport, Beirut, July, 2006



Iraqi Ditch



Iraqi Ditch - detail



Moscow / Vietnam / Shanksville



Madrid, March, 2005



Danger



Security Failure



The End of the World As We Know It



California Blues


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