White Forest

Beaux Mendes develops painting as a transitory medium – a means of transition and becoming on unstable ground. In the densely layered abstract compositions of the Los Angeles-based artist, figuration flickers between emergence and withdrawal, between condensation and erasure. The works search for an in-between: a fluid, provisional and resistant state. Mendes’ painting takes its time and resists traditional representation. It is not a matter of showing what is already visible; rather, it is about uncovering the invisible – that which may not show itself. The works remind us that the image can never be fully perceptible, let alone fully graspable in thought. The supports – whether linen, wood, parchment or panels – play a decisive role.