Kelly Mark – 50 Fucks

Kelly Mark
50 Fucks, 2021
archival inkjet print on paper, ed. of 14
30″ x 30″

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Description

Kelly Mark’s 50 Fucks pays homage to the frottage paintings created by her former mentor and artist Gerald Ferguson. Kelly and Jerry are two of a kind. Their work is equally conceptually-based, dismissive of colour, darkly humorous, unabashedly snarky and totally irreverent. They play with their audience and layer intention and meaning, Kelly with words, Jerry with materials.

Gerald Ferguson was a conceptual artist and educator at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Ferguson’s studio practice was committed to the examination of the conventions of painting and to the deconstruction of its strategies. He was known for his use of “frottage” a process that involved placing a raw canvas over mundane objects and rolling paint across the surface, resulting in an abstract image-transfer, a physical memory of that object. Mark creates her own parody of a frottage painting by digitally layering fifty “fucks” within a 30-inch square. These layers become dense and abstracted, making tribute to Ferguson’s painting series of drain covers.