I have five paintings showing in in Fine Materiality, a three-person exhibition at Peninsula Art Space in Chinatown, New York. They’re on view alongside works by Alison Kudlow and Jess Willa Wheaton from June 1st until July 15th.
With these works, I let myself explore conceptual tangents in my practice related to feminine archetypes as well as material reconfigurations using oil and acrylic on panel-mounted canvas. In each work, an acrylic impasto both attaches the canvas to the wood panel and frames the central image, further emphasized by staple marks in the canvas from its previous mounting on a wall. The unfinished effect suggests an equally incomplete narrative unfolding among each character, a type of vignette from a greater story threaded together by shared elements of color and mark making.
Press release:
The Performance of Materiality in works of art extends beyond physical matter and broadly encompasses all relevant information related to the work’s physical existence. An artwork’s visual content coupled with the artist’s personal history, as it pertains to the origin of the work, are all relevant to the aesthetic experience. The artwork’s physicality- aspects which can be sensed and verified by the viewer on a visceral level- is naturally a primary consideration of a work; physicality impacts content and, subsequently, meaning. Secondly, the apparent subject or object matter, and how that dialogues within the narrative of our contemporary culture, are just as relevant. Considerations of materiality can be universally applied, in the aesthetic assessment of diverse contemporary forms that range from traditional, low-tech media to conceptual or ephemeral works. The art featured in Fine Materiality creates further discourse about how art functions via its materiality, and how the act of making brings forth and informs its ultimate meaning. The exhibition features the artwork of Jess Willa Wheaton, Alison Kudlow, and Whit Harris.