Jaws

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Showell created a series of paintings by crumpling raw canvas into a ball and spraying it with a paint gun. The unfolded canvases revealed patterns caused by gradating color and shifting opacity. This process began as an accident, but Showell admired the unplanned marks made by the creases in the canvas, which reminded him of both fabric and paper: “I’ve always loved to paint drapery and draw it. One of my favorite problems when I was a student was drawing crumpled up paper, and so to me it was natural.”

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