Artist Evan Nesbit uses a squeegee to push paint through the back of dyed burlap, creating 3D pixels of paint that emerge and combine on the front, on view at Van Doren Waxter gallery in New York now.

Artist Evan Nesbit creates uniquely textured paintings that electrify your eyes while they tempt you to approach ever closer. His unusual technique reinvents the relationship between paint and ?canvas? while playing with the idea what the ?front? of an artwork means. Evan Nesbit: Marbled and Bewildered is his third solo exhibition at Van Doren Waxter gallery in New York, on view through February 11th 2023.
Placer Diggins, 2022
From across the room, each painting resembles thousands of tiny pixels of paint spread across cloud-like auras of color in various sections. Up close (and especially from an angle), paint appears to ooze out between the weave of the fabric. Placer Diggins, 2022 (detail)
Placer Diggins, 2022 (detail)
Nesbit has perfected a technique of pushing paint with a squeegee through dyed burlap from the back. The result combines the blurred pigments within the fabric with the 3-dimensional tufts of paint that emerge. Even in areas where the front and back colors are the same, texture becomes a visual tool all its own. The final works stitch multiple sections together to create a warped, organic composition.
Electric Blue Guillotine, 2022 (detail)
Placer Diggins, 2022 \ Electric Blue Guillotine, 2022
In this newest work, Nesbit introduces recognizable form...