3648 Washington Blvd
St Louis, Missouri 63108

Since 2007, many of Erik Spehn's paintings have involved applying strips of masking tape to the surface of his canvases, then painting over them, peeling them off, and taping and repainting again and again. Over time, Spehn recognized that the discarded tape might offer a new avenue of formal investigation, so he began to make works on paper by applying the used tape to matboard. Each piece echoed the specific paintings on which he was working, but visually these "drawings" became a distinct and separate body of work.

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