In the new work, Street covers the canvases with the paint - streaked
hosiery fabric, like flesh over bone.
Part of the recipe is the fleshy and troublesome nature of
hosiery fabric itself, which has an enigmatic translucency and heaviness.
Not exact matches
This is often subtle, as in Senga Nengudi's A.C.Q. (2016 — 17), composed of suspended, sand - filled
hosiery whose stretchy synthetic
fabric alludes to skin and whose sand evokes guts, a material metaphor for bodily elasticity.
Here, gelatin silver photographs and photograms — taken from the artist's personal archive made over the years and used both altered or unmodified — are layered into compositions, along with pieces of sheer black or tan
fabric that allude to women's
hosiery.