This body or work titled “Tools” started while I was attending the SVA residency program in New York. While there, I started experimenting with installation and showing the tools I used, to create each panting as part of it. My aim was to open a conversation between the painting and the object and make them interact differently according to where the object/tool was placed. Like Richard Serra and Duchamp, in this body of work I am using material to investigate my visual intimacy.
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Tool, 2014
Acrylic on wooden board
87 x 8 cm | 34×3 in.
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Object V, 2014
Acrylics on wooden board
78x20cm |31 x 8 in.
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Object I, 2013
Mixed media on cardboard tube
142 x6,4cm | 56x 2.5 in.
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Tool II, 2013
Mixed media on cardboard tube
142 x6,4cm | 56x 2.5 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_5895lay-new-191x300.jpg)
Object II, 2013
Mixed media on wooden board
187×73.5 cm | 74x 29 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_5882lay-new-191x300.jpg)
Tool III, 2013
Mixed media on wooden board
142 x6,4cm | 56x 2.5 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Object-IV-2014-acrylics-on-wooden-board-78x20cm-new-191x300.jpg)
Object VI, 2014
Acrylics on wooden board
71 x 8cm | 28 x 3 in.
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Object III, 2014
Acrylics on wooden board
89x8cm |35x 3 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_4560-new-191x300.jpg)
Object VI, 2014
Acrylics on wooden board
62 x 8cm | 24 x 3 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_4558-new-191x300.jpg)
Tool V, 2013
Mixed media on wooden board
75 x 8 cm | 29.5 x 3 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_4932-191x300.jpg)
Tool VI, 2013
Mixed media on wooden board
182 x 9cm | 72 x 3.5 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_5881lay-new-191x300.jpg)
Object VI, 2014
Acrylics on wooden board
182 x 9cm | 72 x 3.5 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_5925lay-new-191x300.jpg)
SEEKOUT, 2014
Collage on wooden board
88x21cm | 35×8 in.
![](https://mariafragoudaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job_5926lay_new-191x300.jpg)
RIDE, 2014
Collage on wooden board
20x88cm | 8×35 in.