John Armleder’s Puddle Paintings blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and chance-based process. Created by pouring layers of resin, various industrial paint and glitter directly onto horizontal surfaces and allowing gravity to determine their final form, these works embrace contingency while subtly questioning notions of authorship and control.
Emerging from Armleder’s longstanding engagement with Fluxus and chance-based strategies, the Puddle Paintings are at once conceptual and decorative, playful and rigorous, they invite viewers to reconsider painting not as a fixed image but as an evolving process.
