About

In his second solo exhibition at Galerie Simon Blais, Mark Stebbins will show a group of new paintings and ink-jet prints.

Continuing to make use of “pixel aesthetics,” this time Stebbins has explored a more figurative approach to his painting. In a number of instances, his nostalgia-tinged works are based on family photographs. The artist succeeds here in reconciling the past and the future in a single image. Somewhat like a mosaic or a knit, the initial image serves as a grid for the work of pixelation, of piecing together smaller particles.

Now infinitely alterable, pixels have become the …