MARCUS CAIN Alignments
sherry leedy contemporary art
CAIN
Photo Credit: E.G. Schempf
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.
For Want of Seeing
Acrylic and latex on canvas
62” x 60”
Blue Before Green
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Split Rock
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Fences and Paths
Acrylic and latex on canvas
72” x 48”
Color Alignments
Acrylic and latex on canvas
62” x 60”
Together
Holding
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Feeling State I
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Feeling State II
Acrylic on latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Crossing Paths
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Matter and Spirit
Between
Acrylic and latex on canvas 84” x 60”
For Want of Feeling
Acrylic and latex on canvas
84” x 60”
Natural Order
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Power Lines
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
Saccades
Acrylic and latex on canvas
72” x 48”
Seen From Within Acrylic and latex on canvas
48” x 36”
Fly or Fall
Acrylic and latex on canvas
48” x 36”
Infinite Sides
Acrylic and latex on canvas
72” x 54”
Encounter
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
The Sun
Over
Acrylic and latex on canvas
12” x 9”
I am What is Around Me
Acrylic and latex on canvas
48” x 36”
