Brent Wadden

Posted by Fabio 21 November 2013

Working within the vein of assemblage, Wadden makes paintings by piecing together his hand woven weavings to create large scale, hard-edge geometric abstractions. The weavings are constructed from various natural and synthetic materials, mostly refuse from projects gone sour and/or long forgotten, sourced from various locations (thrift shops, eBay and craigslist and a few strands from family members). Once completed, Wadden takes a handful or so of the individual weavings and sews them together to create basic compositions. During the stretching process Wadden’s paintings start to take shape. They warp and weft in awkward ways which create imperfections in the all ready irregular patterns. In contrast to traditional painting, the composition is decided during the final stages of preparation and the use of light and dark create a positive / negative space which shifts between foreground to background.

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