Tense and Spaced Out

Tense and Spaced OutPolar Nights, Glacial Chaos, and the Ecology of Misery Blake Rayne   May 2017Sequence Press, Sternberg Press, and Blaffer Art MuseumDesigned by Geoff KaplanEdited by Katherine Pickard and Tim SaltarelliTexts by John Kelsey, David Lewis, Jaleh Mansoor, Laura Owens, Sean Paul, and Javier Sánchez Martínez Softcover w/ flaps 8.5 in. x 11 in., 205 pp., 1161 color imagesISBN 978-3-95679-326-4  Special Edition of ten copies, with an original drawing. Blake Rayne’s paintings stem from the generative duplicity of words like Script, Folder, Application, Dissolve and Screen. These operative terms situate the work between forms of linguistic description and the history of reflexive material practices in art. He begins from an orientation that considers the terms “painter” and “painting” as fictions. They have no stable material definition, but rather are shaped by evolving social, institutional and physical relations. Rayne’s mode of abstract painting is irrevocably marked