Miraj Ahmed
Times and Placed
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'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2004
'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2004
'Times and Placed'. Detail. Oil on canvas, 2004
'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2004
'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2004
'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2001
'Times and Placed'. Oil on canvas, 2001
Announcements of painting in Times News Paper - Work on Paper - 2001
Announcements of painting in Times News Paper - Work on Paper - 2001
Announcements of painting in Times News Paper - Work on Paper - 2001
Announcements of painting in Times News Paper - Work on Paper - 2001
Announcements of painting in Times News Paper - Work on Paper - 2001
'Times and Placed' explored the space of the newspaper page. Begun as a series of 'works on paper', in which Miraj placed announcements in The Times newspaper personal column crudely describing the making of a painting, which became the 'sketch' and record for a series of canvases. Paintings reproduced the page size, print area and sometimes traces of type and image within the build up of paint - the 'palimpsest'. The Times announcement space became a kind of studio in which the work was developed.