This work is a cast of a painting, effectively a sculpture. To start, the artist makes an exaggeratedly impasto-ed painting on canvases which he then uses to make a mold. The original painting is destroyed in the process. From the casting process results a white plaster copy of the painting, which the artist then stains with colored inks, transforming the sculpture back into a painting.
"Here, as in many of Henderson’s works, his process follows a looped rather than linear development: works that begin as paintings are transformed into sculpture only to be made paintings once again. Henderson subjects his materials to a series of maneuvers and translations, resulting in a disorienting and poetic approach of abstract painting." Jenny Harris
This work is a gyspum cast of a painting. The mold was taken from a a stacked triptych of stretched canvases that were collaged with dried pools of lithography ink and strips of raw linen. The cast was then painted over sparingly with ink. The white of the gypsum represents a kind of blankness or beginning, which is a contradiction. While casting may suggest a loss of color, the cast is not blank or empty but rather depicts exactingly all the sculptural details of the mold from which it was captured. By painting (or rather staining) on top of the cast gypsum, I am signaling that casting an object does not mean that it is fully resolved or permanently fixed. This work is a gyspum/plaster cast of a painting. The mold was taken from a a stacked triptych of stretched canvases that were collaged with dried pools of lithography ink and strips of raw linen.
The cast was then painted over sparingly with ink.
The white of the gypsum represents a kind of blankness or beginning, which is a contradiction. While casting may suggest a loss of color, the cast is not blank or empty but rather depicts exactingly all the sculptural details of the mold from which it was captured.
By painting (or rather staining) on top of the cast gypsum, I am signaling that casting an object does not mean that it is fully resolved or permanently fixed.