A subset of contemporary painting has been, since 2000, characterized as ‘Expanded Painting’. This article examines a selection of these artworks (primarily those of Mark Titmarsh, Katharina Grosse, Jim Lambie and Liam Gillick), asking what concerns they might have in common. These works appear to break from modernist self-consciousness by drawing attention to all the paint that exists outside artworks and galleries. Contemporary painting reveals the paintedness of the Anthropocene.
Cameron Tonkinwise (Wed,) studied this question.