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April 17, 2026Journal of Contemporary Painting0 citations

Expanding into not-art painting

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CTCameron Tonkinwise

Key Points

  • The article aims to explore the common concerns of selected contemporary artworks categorized as Expanded Painting.
  • Analyzing artworks by Mark Titmarsh, Katharina Grosse, Jim Lambie, and Liam Gillick.
  • Identifying themes that connect these artworks beyond traditional painting.
  • Critiquing the relationship between paint, artwork, and gallery spaces.
  • Artworks challenge modernist ideas by highlighting paint outside traditional boundaries.
  • The concept of paintedness reflects broader environmental themes related to the Anthropocene.
  • Expanded Painting offers fresh perspectives on the role of art in contemporary society.

Abstract

A subset of contemporary painting has been, since 2000, characterized as ‘Expanded Painting’. This article examines a selection of these artworks (primarily those of Mark Titmarsh, Katharina Grosse, Jim Lambie and Liam Gillick), asking what concerns they might have in common. These works appear to break from modernist self-consciousness by drawing attention to all the paint that exists outside artworks and galleries. Contemporary painting reveals the paintedness of the Anthropocene.

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Cameron Tonkinwise (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e1cf985cdc762e9d85884bhttps://doi.org/10.1386/jcp_00088_1
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