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John Plumb

John Plumb (1927 - 2008) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  John Plumb is known for Geometric images, abstract shape painting.

Born in Luton, John Plumb studied in London at Byam Shaw and the then Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins). Plumb's participation in the subversive and fêted 1960 and 1961 exhibitions Situation propelled him and his peers to the fore of contemporary British Art, and Plumb would go on to have a series of solo exhibitions at the Marlborough and Axiom galleries London, and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.

Plumb adjusted his working practice at several points throughout his career. The present work likely dates to the early 1970s and belongs to a group of paintings in which the artist purposefully removed himself from certain choices. He would lay linear grids or structures across his canvases, arbitrarily masked off or taped across each other, and then apply the paint in whichever combination came off the shelf, pot by pot. This has been described by fellow Artist and critic William Packer as 'perhaps the most spectacular and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1669 characters.]  Artist bio

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