Not exact matches
Often during the construction of new Shacks, particularly those in new markets, we reimagine the often uninspiring plywood walls that surround a construction site and use this
space as a
canvas to begin the process of integrating the Shake Shack brand into the community prior to it even
opening.
STILLPASS: You call this
space opened up by the
canvas a mental field, but it seems to me that your paintings invite a physical relationship
as much
as a mental one, especially the paintings you place in the middle of the room.
They turn perception inside out
as you find
spaces move and melt, shapes materialise in front of the
canvas, reality itself burst
open to reveal new dimensions.
The charge of violence and eroticism is implicit rather than clearly articulated and the application of paint is more
open and free, embodying the content rather than describing it, thus developing the exploitation of the
canvas as a fictional / artificial
space, which requires a more sustained reading from the viewer.
-- then there's a warmer, more intimate feel to the complementary show of later work in Almine Rech's newly -
opened basement
space, All include the face, such
as this mother and baby study, which flowed into a shaped
canvas of 1979 - 91.
Opening the pictorial
space as an inclusive realm, Anderson invites the viewer to bring their own cultural experiences and memories to the
canvas, thus creating a visual tension where viewer and artist are connected in their contextualisation of the imagery presented to us.
She sees her work
as opening a
space for thought, through bright colors and forms she's sketched or drawn before transferring those gestures onto
canvas.