Thursday
Feb022012
Steven Spazuk
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 09:03AM Selfportrait, 2007 soot on paper 80x119 in.
composed of 272 pieces that fit into a shoebox
Steven Spazuk is a French Canadian artist who has been working with a technique he developed in 2001 that allows him to use a flame from a candle or torch to create his paintings with the trails of soot that remain. Tools manipulate the soot left behind on thick paper to develop gossamer transparencies, volkuptuos spheres with ephemeral halos and x-ray like images of the soul's body.
He works in large composition as well as smaller pieces of paper that assemble to form a large portrait mosaic. Paint is also incororated in to his work on occasion for that splash of color.
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