Alexis Duque Imaginatively charting
the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces paintings and drawings of buildings and domestic interiors stacked and conglomerated...
Alexis Duque Imaginatively charting
the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces pai...
Not exact matches
Gordon has become known for drawing attention to the body's relationship to
space, and the
psychological repercussions
of such
experiences, through the creation
of spaces that manipulate sensory expectations and emotional capacities.
The artist's work connects the mind and body through the
experience of space, using sensory perception to align the physical and the
psychological.
However, Overby's work quickly diverged from those
experiences and developed into a more
psychological and narrative attitude that saw domestic
space and architecture as metaphorical extensions
of bodily decay, and that lead the artist to refer to his practice as «Baroque Minimalism».
It is in this painted
space of «intimate immensity,» where dueling weather systems, terrain and sky, and the flooding light and growing shadows collide, that «Gornik's landscape opens out onto
psychological experience broadly defined — the modern
experience of loss without a lost object.
Her paintings allow
psychological, historical and geographical
space to flow into one another, sensitively and intuitively summoning a feeling
of the
experience of nature on the writer and evoking the sense that the world in the painting lies somewhere between our physical and more essential interior world.
Haberny is also interested in the
psychological impact
experiencing an object in a
space has on a viewer, creating works that seem to defy the confines
of the surrounding physical
space.
Artist Statement As a culturally displaced artist myself, I have been drawn to the theme
of cultural displacement and identity and to social
psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant
experiences and by the interaction between people and
space.