Newz!

Math Bass

Newz!, 2019106.68 x 111.76cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
gouache on canvasCommonwealth and CouncilLos Angeles
Description
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The artwork features a minimalist composition with clean, geometric shapes and a muted color palette. The central focus is a group of white, cloud-like forms arranged in a dynamic, diagonal arrangement, accentuated by thin, reddish-brown lines that appear to be in motion. The overall style is reminiscent of modernist and abstract expressionist techniques, emphasizing the interplay of shapes, colors, and movement to evoke a sense of energy and dynamism. The artist's intention may be to explore the tension between the natural and the artificial, or to challenge traditional notions of representation in contemporary art. ...

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Math Bass
Artist
Math Bass
1981, American

Operating in a dreamy space between surrealism and figuration, Math Bass has developed a distinct visual lexicon in their paintings. Graphic symbols or seemingly random objects such as fried eggs, bones, flowers, letters, and clouds are brought together in supremely flat registers that resurface and reshape in different paintings. The elongated legs, illustrative architectural fragments and bold calligraphy all could have been plucked from an Art Deco poster of the 1920s. The overlaps and unsettling juxtapositions that Bass develops creates narratives for audiences to unravel. The bewildering, somewhat uneasy tone of these oil paintings leaves space for Bass to meditate on their queerness through the language of the everyday, riffing off of personal experiences of navigating everyday environments in heteronormative society. Negative space is a particularly important ingredient within Bass’s compositions. Building on lessons learnt from their tutor Barbara Kruger, Bass values the anchoring presence of negative space, using it as a tool to aid coherence and clarity within each painting’s composition. ...

Math Bass: Artworks
Serpentine Door
Math BassSerpentine Door, 2017Price on Request
Newz!
Math BassNewz!, 2018Price on Request
Newz!
Math BassNewz!, 2019Price on Request
Newz!
Math BassNewz!, 2019Price on Request
crocodile eyes
Math Basscrocodile eyes, 2021Price on Request
Newz!
Math BassNewz!, 2019Price on Request
Swamp
Math BassSwamp, 2020Price on Request
Pink Clouds I
Math BassPink Clouds I, 2021Price on Request
New Teeth
Math BassNew Teeth, 2022Price on Request
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities.