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Friendly reminder: Only a week and half left to see Marc Katano ‘When Water Freezes’ at Leslie Sacks Gallery! The was extended by popular demand and closes Saturday, June 8th. #marckatano #worksonpaper #monotypes #acrylic #nepalese #handmadepaper @marckatano (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGisdzl59E/?igshid=1lwo5t6oq961j

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Friendly reminder: Only a week and half left to see Marc Katano ‘When Water Freezes’ at Leslie Sacks Gallery! The was extended by popular demand and closes Saturday, June 8th. #marckatano #worksonpaper #monotypes #acrylic #nepalese #handmadepaper @marckatano (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGio8Wlj-v/?igshid=fl1cuiyanzzy

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Friendly reminder: Only a week and half left to see Marc Katano ‘When Water Freezes’ at Leslie Sacks Gallery! The was extended by popular demand and closes Saturday, June 8th. #marckatano #worksonpaper #monotypes #acrylic #nepalese #handmadepaper @marckatano (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGikmsFdvS/?igshid=i0l3bhgnfw4q

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Within Marc Katano’s monotypes, the artist employs dynamic ellipses as a kind of visual vocabulary. Katano paints these forms repetitiously to express his sensibilities, yielding innumerable stories and interpretations. Painting and printmaking are both constructively challenging for him, but printmaking presents an inherent difficulty, as the printed image is the reverse of what is painted on the plate matrix. This adds complexity for Katano given the organic and spontaneous nature of his process. He spent nearly a decade (1998-2006) at Pelavin Editions in New York where he produced three monotype series--Sluice, 1998, Natsu, 2001, New York Loops, 2006. This exhibition features examples from the New York Loop and Sluice series. He worked solely in water-based inks and paint for the monotype etching plates and used at least three plates for each composition. The final layer of ellipses was drawn by hand directly onto the paper using a sharpened stick with white gouache. #monotype #gouache #unique #workonpaper #etching #newyork #marckatano #whenwaterfreezes (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw44QiQl3ob/?igshid=1u70tnebfx0uj

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Feeling the blues 💙 Selected works by Marc Katano are on view thru April 14rh. #blues #trueblue #marckatano #abstractart #adagio #windup (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)

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Marc Katano, By Chance, 2017, etching, 38 x 25 1/2 inches, edition of 17 #marckatano #etching #artworkoftheday @marckatano (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B37mpBylanI/?igshid=10392g7qcsva2

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Highlights from our 2019 SUMMER CATALOGUE 🌴☀️ Featuring fantastic works by your favorite artists! #andywarhol #raymondpettibon #davidhockney #samfrancis #marckatano #alexweinstein #brucecohen #pierrebonnard #pablopicasso (at Santa Monica, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzyyyyNFg2m/?igshid=7g9iw9pe2fcj

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Close ups of Marc Katano’s Adagio, 2017 a unique work with acrylic and ink on handmade Nepalese paper. #marckatano #details #workonpaper #japaneseamerican #nepal #papermaking (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQqPP3lEPt/?igshid=1omnftdgby72i

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Marc Katano, Indigo, 2018 (left) and Para Ti, 2015 (right), acrylic on Nepalese paper #worksonpaper #pairing #marckatano (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw79IILlynj/?igshid=sef9of3olw9r

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#FridayFeature | Marc Katano - Within his monotypes, Marc Katano employs dynamic ellipses as a kind of visual vocabulary. Katano paints these forms repetitiously to express his sensibilities, yielding innumerable stories and interpretations. Painting and printmaking are both constructively challenging for the artist, but printmaking presents an inherent difficulty, as the printed image is the reverse of what is painted on the plate matrix. This adds complexity for Katano given the organic and spontaneous nature of his process. He spent nearly a decade (1998-2006) at Pelavin Editions in New York where he produced three monotype series--Sluice, 1998, Natsu, 2001, New York Loops, 2006. His current exhibition, When Water Freezes, features examples from the New York Loops and Sluice series. Katano worked solely in water-based inks and paint for the monotype etching plates and used at least three plates for each composition. The final layer of ellipses was drawn by hand directly onto the paper using a sharpened stick with white gouache. - Marc Katano, New York Loops 065, 2006, unique monotype, 37 x 26 inches, signed and dated - #marckatano #monotype #uniquework #unique #workonpaper #printmaking #etching #newyork #santamonica #gouache #sluice #natsu #whenwaterfreezes #ellipses (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwcjYOxFR1Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1estib90klkoi

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Thanks again to everyone who came out to our opening reception for Marc Katano ‘ When Water Freezes’ — the entire day was fantastic with the @bergamotsantamonica Spring Open House! #marckatano #exhibitionopening #bergamotstation #santamonica #artgallery (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwaArQTlVDa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ia89ju57xet5

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We are pleased to announce our newest exhibition: Marc Katano | When Water Freezes featuring paintings on paper and monotypes. The exhibition opens this Saturday! Join us for a reception for the artist from 5-7pm. Come earlier in the day to experience the fun at @bergamotsantamonica Spring Open House! #bergamot #exhibitionopening #marckatano (at Bergamot Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwIVDurlcZY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1om2fij9pdxyi

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Upcoming exhibition announcement! Marc Katano ‘When Water Freezes’ featuring paintings on paper and monotypes, opens Saturday, April 13th. The @bergamotsantamonica Spring Open House is that day too! #exhibitionopening #openingreception #artistreception #marckatano #worksonpaper #painting #monotype (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvXZkPvlYjf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bo1xfcl8qby9

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#FridayFeature | Marc Katano - “The fundamental basis of my work is the act of inscription itself. Though my compositions are organic in form, they are inspired not by the emulation of nature, but by the physicality of human expression, as made manifest in the precise motions of Japanese calligraphy. My visual vocabulary is made up of the simplest, most natural movements of the hand and arm, reflecting the physical activity of mark making. It is a self-referential language in which each line represents nothing more than its own creation and each piece finds meaning in the harmony of its own internal structure.” --Marc Katano - Artwork info: Marc Katano, Chanting, 2016, etching, 38 x 26 inches, edition of 20, signed and numbered - #marckatano #katano #inscription #vocabulary #abstractart #abstraction #lexicon #characters #calligraphy #japaneseamerican #japanese #print (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsOZ1PdFP5N/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14809nhcfo6ml

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The organic nature of Marc Katano’s gestural paintings is further accentuated by the artist’s deliberate paper choices. Some of his works in this style are on heavyweight, handmade Nepalese paper. The presence of soft rag is relegated to the outermost edges exposing the paper pulp, but the predominate surface area is dense and textured. As realized in Verse I, 2015 (image 1), it is weighty and impenetrable. And though purely an abstract configuration, the handmade paper delivers a coarse and mountainous landscape where the ink and paint pool and seep in wide crevasses. Conversely, other works are painted on soft, supple Onkawara paper—as evidenced in Good Kid, 2014 (image 2). The paper is perceptibly smooth and delicate, while at the same time remaining fibrous and strong. The marks stain the sheet with a kind of spontaneity and chance. There exists a successful accord in Katano’s well-conceived marriage of media and material. The paper density and his application of paint and ink are not predictably fragile and careful as is often expected in works on paper. #marckatano #katano #worksonpaper #abstract #okawara #nepalese #handmadepaper #til #dyk (at Leslie Sacks Gallery)

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Check out our 2018 Summer Catalogue! ✨ Here are a few highlights. ✨ Featuring works by #georgesbraque #marcchagall #brucecohen #willemdekooning #beneine #helenfrankenthaler #damienhirst #davidhockney #marckatano #ellsworthkelly #minjungkim #sollewitt #marinomarini #henrimatisse #edmoses #pablopicasso #marcquinn #jamesrosenquist #edruscha #alexweinstein 👆 View the full catalogue via link in bio 👆 (at Bergamot)