Reginald Sylvester II: What the Material Refuses to Forget

In Reginald Sylvester II’s mixed-media works, rubber, aluminium and military shelter cloth carry the weight of extraction, faith and American abstraction A canvas can take many forms. As the underlying structure that physically holds an artwork together, it may also act as a window or doorway into another way of seeing. In Reginald Sylvester II’s new paintings, the support is not passive. Rubber stretched over aluminium forms the foundation, while his forceful mark-making gives each surface rhythm and tension. These […]