By reducing a figure / ground system to its core, I am able to enhance
the sculptural qualities of each piece.
Not exact matches
While many
of Sandback's early
pieces retained a ghostly
sculptural quality by tracing the contours
of simple geometric figures, these works have decomposed into clusters
of pure vertical projections.
This method endows the collages with a
sculptural quality, as the body
of each
piece of paper is independent and the edges — no longer adhered to the backing — become expressively alive.
This
sculptural quality allows them to be displayed in various ways: here, strewn casually beneath two large untitled paintings (both 2015), the loose puzzle
pieces of Patchworks might be what spilled from the pair
of geometrically abstracted canvases above.
Her framed «peg - board»
pieces sit on the floor, creating a hybrid: a
sculptural object with the
qualities of a picture.