Some paintings depict her studio: paint - spattered floors, scuffed white walls hung with works in progress,
tiny paintings within paintings.
Not exact matches
Rules are: sculptures are made with pressure,
paintings with leisure; yet to reduce a sense of privilege, they are all produced in artificial light and under strict parameters
within four
tiny, windowless studios in Brooklyn, each designated for only one activity — sculpture, small
painting, larger
painting, or video / audio.
Painted nail heads and
tiny toy homes are typical keys that guide viewers from a bird's eye view of microscopic worlds to intricate webs of connections between people, communities, history and possible futures encased
within shiny coatings.
Nevertheless, there is an unmistakable and driving sense of kinetic movement and energy
within all her works, especially the pointillism of her «arrow»
paintings that depict schools of
tiny arrows massing and converging like small fish or unseen air currents.
One finds
tiny landscapes, portrait heads, a stag, what looks like fragments of architecture, byzantine patterning, abstractions, and other bits of imagery
painted into the glazes, creating a miniature exhibition of
painting within the sculpture exhibition.
On what serves as a floor
within, a
tiny glaze
painting of a sensuous but stylized landscape is at once anomalous and perfectly fit to the enclosure.
Like the collage artist who takes objects from the world, combines them with
paint, and sets them inside a frame in order to show the viewer that «the
tiniest authentic fragment of daily life says more than a
painting,» Genzken uses the gallery space itself as a kind of frame, setting objects
within and then adding her own version of a
paint stroke.
Created specifically for the MOCA Pacific Design Center, TEENY
TINY WOMAN presents her ongoing engagement with translation, scale, and the authored collapse of authentic and performed gestures, combining large - scale
paintings, fabricated objects, textiles, and photographs
within a custom architectural environment.