Painting Brushless | Jackalope Ranch | Phoenix | Phoenix New Times | The Leading Independent News Source in Phoenix, Arizona
Navigation

Painting Brushless

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours? Gravity is Amy Shackleton's artistic tool of choice. The 25-year-old, Toronto-based painter doesn't use a brush or her finger -- she waits for gravity...
Share this:
Carbonatix Pre-Player Loader

Audio By Carbonatix

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?

Gravity is Amy Shackleton's artistic tool of choice. The 25-year-old, Toronto-based painter doesn't use a brush or her finger -- she waits for gravity to draw paint across her canvas (sometimes with the help of a string). 


"The drips create the straight lines and backgrounds where I intend to make the paintbrush an object of antiquity," she writes. "I drip and mask and drip and layer so my paintings are more composites of layers of paint upon paint in both meaning and medium." 

 Check out the video above, which is a 30-hour painting session condensed into two minutes.

See more of Shackleton's work here and in person at ART TORONTO 2011.


Follow Jackalope Ranch on Facebook and Twitter.



BEFORE YOU GO...
Can you help us continue to share our stories? Since the beginning, Phoenix New Times has been defined as the free, independent voice of Phoenix — and we'd like to keep it that way. Our members allow us to continue offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food, and culture with no paywalls.