John-Paul Rautio Isomorphisms (2018)
Isomorphisms John-Paul Rautio creates charcoal and chalk drawings on wood panels. The images recall
scientific photography: microscopic, rapatronic and astronomical. He often uses polygonal
panels, the geometry of which is an abstraction of the human hand, and the use of charcoal
a reference to cave painting. The shapes emerge as Rautio rubs charcoal into the wood surface. They are theoretical objects that exist on a number of levels - as ‘figures,’ ‘energies,’ and depictions of the moment of their own creation.
John-Paul Rautio Isomorphism 1, 2018 Charcoal, chalk, fixative on baltic panel 39 x 38 inches $2,250
John-Paul Rautio Isomorphism 2, 2018 Charcoal, chalk, fixative on baltic panel 39 x 42 inches $2,250
John-Paul Rautio Isomorphism 3, 2018
Charcoal, chalk, fixative on baltic panel 31 x 25 inches $1,700
John-Paul Rautio Isomorphism 5, 2018 Charcoal, chalk, fixative on baltic panel 32 x 25 inches $1,650
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