Artworks

McArthur Binion
DNA: Sepia: II, 2016
Oil paint stick, sepia ink, and paper on board
96 x 72 inches (243.8 x 182.9 cm)
GL10717

Over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, McArthur Binion has cultivated a unique visual style that involves building an “under conscious” to his paintings with repetitious photocopies of private documents such as his birth certificate and his hand-written address book. DNA: Sepia: II, 2016 is from the artist’s seminal DNA series and follows the Seasons and DNA paintings. Binion looked to introduce a third element and when he laid the sepia ink on top of the under conscious of the painting, he discovered an alchemic response of colors.