Graham Gussin

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The Mary Jane Paintings

These paintings are all made using hashish. The marijuana resin is brought from various places, ground down, mixed with linseed oil and used on linen and paper. I was interested in this idea of art taking you somewhere, of it being a kind of transport and interested in the idea of art being uplifting and how this collided with the notion of a ‘high’. I like the idea that this material is a ‘street’ material, we often sense its traces in the city, but also that it is forbidden, taboo, hidden. I also wanted to play with the idea of possession, dealing and intended use, content and agency. There is a variation in the imagery, they have been made over a long period of time. The first paintings were the monochromes and this led into more landscape based works and later constructions, patterns and surfaces.

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THIS IS YÖÜR CÄPTÅIN SPEÄKING YÖÜR ØÅPTÅIN IS DEA̋D PDF -text by Jonathan P.Watts

 

photo: Peter White
l-r Retreat, Construction in Space and Time, Entrance to a Lane
Cosmic Dawn 2018
Cosmic Dawn. 2018. Hashish paint on Linen
photo: Peter White
large paintings: l-r The Astral Plane 2009-2017; This Is Your Captain Speaking 2010-2018
Hashish paint on Linen 2018
The Ragged Mountains. Hashish paint on Linen 2018
photo: Peter White
Hashish paint on Linen
Hashish paint on Linen 2010-2015
Retreat. Hashish paint on Linen 2010-2015
2009-2018
Construction in Space and Time 2009-2018
Hashish on Linen 2009
Ten Seconds of Forever. Hashish on Linen 2009

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