Lot 14: Udomsak Krisanamis

Acid Rain

60 x 60 x 2 1/2 in. (152.4 x 152.4 x 6.4 cm).

Ink and collage on wool blanket.

1996

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, projects 63, May 14 - June 30, 1998

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

He started out in the mid-1990's with widely admired, physically distinctive black-and-white abstractions that reduced painting to ground zero. His working process -- combining East and West, art and craft, real and abstract, chance and plan -- entailed making collages of newsprint and then blacking out everything except the O's and zeroes, initially, with a felt-tip pen. The resulting paintings were as mind-bogglingly straightforward in conception as they were mesmerizing in effect -- evoking star-clogged night skies, twinkling cityscapes and blinking digital universes.
(R. Smith, “Art in Review; Udomsak Krisanamis,” The New York Times, September 29, 2000)