IAIN BAXTER& + Miklos Legrady: Art Ecology

28″ x 40″ – 71.12cm x 101.6cm, acrylic on cardboard May 25, 2021

IAIN BAXTER& + MIKLOS LEGRADY
present a collaborative body of work
a series of paintings on Art Ecology

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This collaboration between artists IAIN BAXTER& & MIKLOS LEGRADY is similar to Rauschenberg’s “Erased DeKooning Drawing”, but instead of erasure there’s additions, an origami of images and ideas. The artists share ownership of the work and follow their inclination. As a visual artist MIKLOS LEGRADY paints his paintings; as a conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER& influences the work through emails and phone conversations. We started on art’s ecology and ended with art on ecology. Still, we’re walking on thin ice.

30″ x 48″ – 76.2cm x 121.92cm, acrylic on cardboard, May 27, 2021

The political course of this work is informed by BGTQ positivity and cultural diversity. These large cardboard paintings speak of artists navigating a cultural system and how they address institutional mindsets, authoritarian networks, privileged beliefs, and power imbalances. These paintings not only let us see the art world differently, they call our attention to how we feel about it.