Gary Brewer visits the studio of Mark Dutcher whose show Another World is on view at Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles through June 3, 2017.

Brewer writes that “[Dutcher’s] approach can express innocence and joy in passages where the canvas remains fresh and present and the paint is applied lightly. In other works where an accumulation of paint is built up by painting over, revising or entirely burying other paintings beneath, it acquires a heavier presence, a ‘shadow’ of the struggle and the insecurity and doubt that can pervade the search. The spatial density of painting one thing on top of another creates a historical record, a certain kind of space where the history of the making is exposed and it becomes a form of subjective archaeology.”