March 4 - 28, 2010
Opening Reception:
First Thursday, March 4th, 6-10 pm
Gallery Hours: Sundays 12 - 5 pm
Closing Reception:
Sunday, March 28, 6-8 pm
At the In House Gallery and Project Space
625 NE Everett St. #106 Portland, OR
These graphite drawings on paper from 2008 are calligraphic exercises - letter-forms constructed from waves and clusters of marks. I imagined a field of wheat attempting to form itself into words, a mute landscape swelling in the wind, blades of grass arranging and aligning themselves. The drawings were a pleasurable labor of repetition, feeling the softness and hardness of individual lines, layered in rhythm, feeling impressions on a surface while leaving residue, the forms bending under the pencil. Quiet drawings, these are landscapes gathered into bundles.
2 comments:
I'm in the wheat field!
Nice to see you at the show. No facebook? I was thinking about your recent experimentation with cutting paper. You're probably familir with the Spatialism movement and Lucio Fontana. He did some interesting things with cutting into canvases. The artist I was trying remember that uses cut paper as a medium is Carlos Garaicoa (Bend City 2008).
Take care,
Stuart Mayer stuartmmayer@gmail.com
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