b. Rock Hill, SC 1973

Being his paintings carefully crafted and labor-intensive minimalist compositions, James Busby’s adds multiple layers of gesso over birch plywood panels while sanding and polishing each layer, resulting in an object-like structure. On many of the panels, the artist incorporates texture, painting over the surface with oil, acrylic and graphite in a process of application and removal as certain marks are figured then burnished out, being the process of erasing marks a contribute to the history of paintings.

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