Over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, 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. Continue reading McArthur Binion
Re:Mine refers to the artist’s practice of both hiding and excavating biographical information in his paintings, claiming and reclaiming personal and cultural history. Copies of the artist’s birth certificate and pages from his address book are physically laid down as a self-described “under surface” of the paintings on which he applies multiple layers of paint stick in vertical and horizontal strokes. Continue reading McArthur Binion
