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Artist Statement: “The Time Before/The Time After.”
Supporters of Galerie Tangerine will likely recall the inaugural show, which featured twenty canvases from my series The Beckomberga Mask. Today, five years later, I am honored to return to celebrate the gallery’s fifth anniversary with a second show, featuring work from a period before the The Mask Series, and a period immediately after.
I spent several years before The Mask Series experimenting with a number of styles and subject matter, looking for ways to express “meaning” in my work. The search resulted in purely abstract canvases, but also work where simple symbols, such as the shape of a heart or a letter, or a gesture, such a splash of paint, were chosen to communicate a message.
The search for “meaning” culminated in The Mask Series. But I eventually felt a desire to “move on” from that very specific subject matter, to instead apply the same treatment of faces in a new format. This resulted in The Hand of God, Hand of Man Series, represented here by two canvases. This series looks at catastrophes that have struck humanity through the ages.
Thank you for your interest.”
Bad Love
Henry Rasmussen
20 x 20 inches | Acrylic on Canvas with Bullet Hole Perforations | 2009
Beat 82
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 36 inches | Acrylic + Spray Paint on Canvas | 2010
Dresden
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 48 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2020
Hiroshima
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 48 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2020
Hurt Heart
Henry Rasmussen
30 x 24 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2009
Pink Splash
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 36 inches | Acrylic + Spray Paint on Canvas | 2010
Preso Politico
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 36 inches | Acrylic + Spray Paint on Canvas | 2009
Red Face
Henry Rasmussen
48 x 30 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2020
Seeing You
Henry Rasmussen
36 x 36 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2009
Yellow X
Henry Rasmussen
40 x 30 inches | Oil on Canvas | 2008
Apparition (Ghost of Garcia Lorca)
Henry Rasmussen
61 x 49 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2014
Wildwood Vulvan (Arsonist)
Henry Rasmussen
73 x 61 inches | Acrylic on Canvas | 2010