{"id":10471,"date":"2023-12-08T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T14:25:33","slug":"eric-n-mack-at-paula-cooper-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/08\/eric-n-mack-at-paula-cooper-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric N. Mack at Paula Cooper Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulacoopergallery.com\/exhibitions\/eric-n-mack3#tab:slideshow;tab-1:thumbnails\">Eric N. Mack<\/a> calls himself a painter whose medium is fabric &#8211; new work at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is mostly hung on stretchers that support not canvas but collaged fabric fragments.\u00a0 Like painting, Mack\u2019s work foregrounds color and pattern, but the artist doesn\u2019t add these elements to the canvas, rather he encounters them as found materials.\u00a0 Instead of creating transparency and texture from paint, these are qualities of the surface itself.\u00a0 Sourced from divergent origins \u2013 Mack might use fabric from couture clothing or neighborhood markets \u2013 the artist collapses quality distinctions in his dynamic abstractions.\u00a0 (On view through Dec 22<sup>nd<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2903px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/60bf8b71-ccec-dbb4-a3a1-5b88a972dff6.jpg\" width=\"2903\" height=\"3471\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric N. Mack, Strewn Sitbon, fabric on aluminum stretcher, overall: 41 x 34 \u00bd x 6 inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric N. Mack calls himself a painter whose medium is fabric &#8211; new work at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is mostly hung on stretchers that support not canvas but collaged fabric fragments.\u00a0 Like painting, Mack\u2019s work foregrounds color and pattern, but the artist doesn\u2019t add these elements to the canvas, rather he encounters them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/08\/eric-n-mack-at-paula-cooper-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric N. 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