Name: PAUL COWAN (B. 1985)
Brand: BCUASEE THE SKY IS BULE
Price: 1700.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

PAUL COWAN (B. 1985)
BCUASEE THE SKY IS BULE
signed and dated 'PAUL COWAN 2014' (on the overlap)
Chroma-key paint on canvas
66 x 24 in. (167.6 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 2014.

Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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The present lot is from a series of paintings by Chicago-based artist, Paul Cowan, that examines our human ability of parallel processing - the brain's processing of color, motion, shape and depth. The blue Chroma-key paint creates a perfectly smooth finish, which is then disrupted by three straight strokes in white that seem to both hover on the painting's surface, but also create a momentary sense of depth. Beyond the composition, the work's title, BCUASEE THE SKY IS BULE, plays on the research that proves reorganizing the letters in the middle of a word has little effect on its legibility, as long as the first and last letters are in the correct position.