Marcus Cain 2018

MARCUS CAIN Alignments sherry leedy contemporary art

MARCUS CAIN Alignments

February 2, 2018 - March 24, 2018 at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Photo Credit: E.G. Schempf

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art | 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108 | 816.221.2626 | sherryleedy.com

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Marcus Cain’s new series of paintings, Alignments, are inspired as reply to the constant stream of information experienced in our hyperactive world.

Cain is interested in, what he calls,“ a territory between looking and seeing” and these paintings hasten to reflect and respond to our common experience of action and reaction.

Employing the humblest of tools, Cain stamps the surface of his canvas with pieces of wood dipped in color. The repeated marks accumulate and reveal, or conceal, intervals of pattern that cluster together, and then break apart.

Woven color divides space and suggests shadow and light, the movement, gravity and atmosphere of our world. Cain says of these paintings, “Collectively these works are meditations on personal and universal mythologies, acts of transformation and discovery and loss in the natural and man-made world.”

Marcus Cain holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute where he is Alumni Director. His work is in the permanent collections of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, and numerous others.

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For Want of Seeing Acrylic and latex on canvas 62” x 60”

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Blue Before Green Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9”

Split Rock Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9”

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Fences and Paths Acrylic and latex on canvas 72” x 48”

Color Alignments Acrylic and latex on canvas 62” x 60”

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Holding Together Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9” 8.

Feeling State I Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9”

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Feeling State II Acrylic on latex on canvas 12” x 9”

Crossing Paths Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9” 11.

Between Matter and Spirit Acrylic and latex on canvas 84” x 60” 12.

For Want of Feeling Acrylic and latex on canvas 84” x 60”

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Natural Order Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9” 14.

Power Lines Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9” 15.

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Saccades Acrylic and latex on canvas 72” x 48”

Seen From Within Acrylic and latex on canvas 48” x 36”

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Fly or Fall Acrylic and latex on canvas 48” x 36”

Infinite Sides Acrylic and latex on canvas 72” x 54”

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Encounter Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9”

Over The Sun Acrylic and latex on canvas 12” x 9”

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I am What is Around Me Acrylic and latex on canvas 48” x 36”

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art | 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108 | 816.221.2626 | sherryleedy.com