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Pablo's Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings

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Pablo's Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings - Billy J. McCarroll

Pablo’s Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings 2011-2013
Billy McCarroll

Pablo’s Grid: In earlier work I had used cutout images of Picasso’s Bull drawings. By chance I pixelated a drawing which I set aside thinking it might become useful at some point. Pablo’s Grid Series is a result of using selected ares of that pixelated image in whole or in part.

Drop Cloth: A sheet or cloth laid over furniture or floors to protect while a room is being painted.

I developed an interest in accidental spills and marks left on a drop cloth while a house or furniture is being painted. I search for and collect such cloths to use as a base and start for a painting. I search for and collect such cloths to use as a base and start for a painting. The majority of works in this exhibition result from employing one or both of these approaches. From the drop cloth I select a section or patch that will give me a start.

In most works I will start with a grid, sometimes in graphite or carved back into layers of paint. The grid and what splatters and marks are on the drop cloth will help determine the composition and initial direction of the work. Pablo’s Grid may fill the entire surface or a portion or is often combined sections of drop cloth and other media.

Various stages of the cloth are made visible in the work through the use of transparencies, semi transparencies and opaque colour. This reveals a procedural history of the work. Multiple layers of paint are added, sanded, polished and usually a line or grid is cut back to the original surface.

Thanks to the Trianon Gallery
Represented by Jarvis Hall Fine Arts Calgary
– Billy J. McCarroll

TRIANON GALLERY

Shows

  • 2015
    • The Field of Appearances
    • (un)Desirables
    • Time... Place... People...
    • LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
    • Half Pace
    • I Wish I Was A Little More Delicate
    • Inappropriate Intensities
    • ---
  • 2016
    • Collision of.....
    • Confined Landscapes: A Project From The Carceral Landscape
    • FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS
    • COURT PAINTER & THE POLITICAL ELITE
    • Interface
    • /GRENZE
    • Faltamos Fantasmas
    • Evan Peacock
    • Ecoscapes: envisioning science and ecology
    • ---
  • 2017
    • From Away To
    • Return
    • Court Painter
    • IIKAAKIIMAAT
    • Underfoot: Domestic Abstraction
    • OLD BRICKS NEW TRICKS
    • ---
  • 2018
    • Art Becomes Nature
    • Occurrences
    • THE FIGURE in Relationship
    • Wer bist du?
    • That's not what I meant.
    • CORPUS PHILOSOPHORUM
    • I Reserve The Right
    • ---
  • 2019
    • Construct Counterpoint
    • askîy iskwew
    • This Apparent Magnitude
    • Salvage
    • Unruly Bodies II
    • Ghosts and Angels
    • ---
  • 2020
    • O Death
    • Material Instincts: Ruminations on Motherhood and Craft
    • Studium
    • ---
  • 2021
    • IN THE SHADOW OF SUMMER
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  • 2022
    • Jeffrey Spalding - A Tribute.
    • Janice Rahn & Michael Campbell
    • Billy McCarroll - Recent Work
    • Colour & Connections
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  • 2014
    • senselikeblueplace
    • The Study of Where is Near
    • The Entangled Argument
    • Liar Liar
    • Hoarder Tendencies
    • DICKENS!
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • MUTATIONS
    • MICROCOSM
    • Hobby Shop
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  • 2013
    • Bloodless & Boneless
    • Unity in Opposition
    • Three Women
    • Pablo's Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings
    • Principles of Nostalgia
    • M.E.D.I.U.M
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  • 2012
    • End of Time
    • All You Can Eat
    • Manufacturer
    • The Wandering Thought II
    • The Voice Reached Us
    • Debra Tisdale
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  • 2011
    • Paradise Lost
    • Nature As Culture
    • Architectural Drawing
    • Decoy
    • Iconographies
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  • 2010
    • Nouveau Frankenstein
    • Potemkin – Whole Sum of Its Parts
    • The Irreal and The Imaginary
    • Elyse Longair
    • At the other side of beyond
    • Walks in the Wood
    • Muster
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  • 2009
    • Come Through my Doorway
    • Fortuna
    • Triangulation
    • Membrane
    • New Works
    • Serendipity
    • Early Work
    • Dear Edward
    • These are for Science
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  • 2008
    • Abitation
    • Drawing Distance
    • Paper Fitting
    • Potluck
    • A Haphazard History
    • Portraits from the Hive
    • Leftovers
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