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Brian Dupont

Brian Dupont’s text-based paintings focus on how the visual aspects of information are conveyed—or distorted—within the framework of abstract painting. He uses snippets of found text in his work, including poetry by H. L. Hix, Richard Serra’s verb list drawing, tweets from friends, writings by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon, poetry and the transcript from the Richard Prince art appropriation case. His recent work addresses the visual possibilities inherent in language; he takes the written (or printed) word as source material, stressing and distorting the text through a …