Biography

Israel Lund is a painter who works recursively. He uses the tools of silkscreen to make images that are defined by the circumstances of their creation—the particular unrepeatable conditions of squeegee pressure, angle, canvas texture, ink viscosity. Its a process of distortion, a kind of hands-on, analog algorithm. Completed canvasses are photographed and fed back into the system to be further degraded and randomized. Photographs of the work of other artists (Daniel Buren’s stripes and Martin Kippenberger’s scribbles) also become raw inputs, distorted and mixed with all the other information bouncing around this feedback loop.