#rae hicks

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Rae Hicks - Melancholia, 2023, oil on linen, 130 x 110 cm

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I love what Derrida writes about color: “As is said of grace, the ‘second navigation’ of the drawing in color is a first voyage, an inaugural transference. It has, so to speak, no past, no yesterday, even though, and because, the graphic structure is finished: therefore open, viable.” The current popularity of coloring books among adults supports this insight, but there was a time, semi-recent, when such notions of secondary primacy seemed merely paradoxical. Contemporary painting makes much use of such fruitful nuances. In this 2018 work by Rae Hicks, for instance, the artist plays with spaces literal and symbolic, and the painting comes to illustrate secondary primacy as a process. Here, a black star (a reference to Bowie perhaps?) is only partial, but not partial as a star (as it would be were it missing an arm, say). No. Partial as a black one—for what Derrida calls the “second navigation” of the blackness is incomplete. The color hasn’t reached its destination; it is lost at sea (“destinerrant” Derrida might write) in an expanse of manila, in the manila beneath all things.

 From “Contemporary Art: A Flexegesis” by James D Bowman 3

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Rae Hicks (British, b. 1988), Sometimes I Forget That You’re Gone, 2013. Oil on canvas, 86.5 x 76.5 cm.

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2013 Oil on canvas

Rae Hicks