Justin Margitich is a visual artist living in Santa Rosa, CA. His solo exhibition at City Limits, Circuiting, opened in February 2014.

These works on black sandpaper were the first paintings made by Margitich in several years. Noticing the liminal forms created by sharpening his metalpoint stylus on fine sandpaper, Margitich began using his own incidental marks as beginnings of compositions, painting striations of color on what was previously scrap material. Influenced as much by Frank Stella's early "black paintings" as the subtle gradients of Andreas Schultze, these paintings are an exercise in precision and repetition, finding new value in various kinds of mark making and leaving little to be discarded.

Justin Margitich
Circuit #28
Various metal points and acrylic on black sandpaper
11 x 9 inches
2014