Not exact matches
Along with tens of thousands, was I exploring the metaphoric
fabric of a city, an installation, a
landscape, my own childhood, or the shifting status of a
work of art?
Through paint, pixel, word, and
fabric she creates
work that functions as a bridge between the hypothetical and the physical, objects operate as artifacts of personal - as - political discovery formulated within a
landscape balancing between nihilism and mysticism.
This new
work concerning
landscape builds on previous pieces that employ traditional quilt patterns and substitute film for scraps of
fabric.
The abstract
works resemble actual objects and places —
landscapes,
fabric patterning, tile grout — while simultaneously seeming to engage with no more than painting itself.
One hint: there is often something hidden in the
works collected here — for instance, Rowena Dring's clear, comic - like
landscape «paintings» turn out to be sewn together out of small pieces of
fabric, which, as soon as the viewer looks more closely, dissolve into countless flecks of color.
Readers are transported through the museum's Matisse
works — an array of Eastern nudes, colorful
fabrics, carpets, potted plants and idyllic
landscapes — plus a selection of additional paintings, sculptures and
works on paper by the French master.
Jacotey's
work draws inspiration from the gathering of people together, the expression of emotions in their many and varied interactions and the contexts and details in which these engagements take place — architecture,
landscape, or place; picking out wallpaper, furniture, clothes, and zooming in further to detail pattern, patina, texture... Her
works — though insistently manual in their making (paintings on plaster and dust sheets, pencil drawings, sewing and
fabric)-- make use of perspectives that reference the world of cinema and slo - mo, the photographer's point and shoot, identifying an artist who has come of age in the smartphone world with its prevalent verbs — zoom, scroll, tap, drag, swipe etc..
ZKR's curatorial collective and the various artists included, allow for multiple perspectives that engage with Matta - Clark's
work — both as documentation and intervention in the urban
landscape and its social
fabric — in distinctive ways.
We are presented with four
works: in Tower Block, a blank monitor is interjected with high rises, surreally spliced into abstraction via arbitrary image edging; in Floor, three parallel projections explore the surface texture of floorboards with a near - fetishistic, intimate scrutiny; in Shirt, worn
fabric is rendered nonfigurative, the patterns and folds becoming
landscape instead of fashion; while in Moon, a twin - screen installation, presents us with 21 miniature viewing - windows from which we voyeuristically glimpse the moon, creating a field of juddering orbs.