Edgar Arceneaux is a multimedia artist whose practice treats removal, mirroring, and material labor as ways to think. In his process-driven works, he breaks down surfaces and reassembles meaning through what happens during making—chemistry, separation, and time-based transformation rather than purely representational imagery.
A central thread in Arceneaux’s recent painting is his Skinning the Mirror approach, where acrylic paint meets mirror as both support and optical device. He skins mirrors by separating silver nitrate from sourced glass, then steers the resulting entropic forces to generate compositions. The resulting paintings (from smaller formats to mural scale) position color, composition, and reflection as a body-to-vision problem—soft flesh-like warmth against metallic glint—while keeping the work’s “process record” visible rather than fixed.
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