Redsaw Gallery285 Broad St,Newark NJ 07102Reception Saturday, June 2, 6 - 9 pmThrough June 27th Reception may 11th 6 - 9 pm Free!
Red Saw Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by emerging artist Erika Diamond. Set before us are unusual and intricate works referential of the body through both medium and execution. Diamond’s delicate constructions utilizing the organic, textural materials of peeled grape and onion skins to grass and human hair explore the concepts of control, containment and obsession. At first glance, it is not entirely evident how the artist has obtained these exact line drawings and fragile, wafer like sculptures. However upon closer inspection, the line drawings reveal their medium of human hair or sometimes grass, and the suspended wafer thin sculptures unmask themselves as the reconstructed skins of onions. The works are obsessive in nature, and the masterful repetition of organic forms is breathtakingly beautiful. The completed pieces are as much about process as the end product. Diamond has literally peeled us a grape – make that several hundred – or, as in her Epidermis series - unraveled the outer layers of an onion, and carefully stitched them back together, suspending them in mid-air like ornaments or floating cocoons. The ephemeral nature of her work challenges traditional ideologies of permanence and material. Diamond has crafted and painstakingly executed wonderful marvels of patience. curated by Dave Smith
Also exhibiting: Artwork by Discovery Charter School Students in Redsaw's Reception Gallery Paintings by Phil Shimko at 27 Mix (and more work by Charter Students in the back!)
RedSaw Website
Red Saw Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by emerging artist Erika Diamond. Set before us are unusual and intricate works referential of the body through both medium and execution. Diamond’s delicate constructions utilizing the organic, textural materials of peeled grape and onion skins to grass and human hair explore the concepts of control, containment and obsession. At first glance, it is not entirely evident how the artist has obtained these exact line drawings and fragile, wafer like sculptures. However upon closer inspection, the line drawings reveal their medium of human hair or sometimes grass, and the suspended wafer thin sculptures unmask themselves as the reconstructed skins of onions. The works are obsessive in nature, and the masterful repetition of organic forms is breathtakingly beautiful. The completed pieces are as much about process as the end product. Diamond has literally peeled us a grape – make that several hundred – or, as in her Epidermis series - unraveled the outer layers of an onion, and carefully stitched them back together, suspending them in mid-air like ornaments or floating cocoons. The ephemeral nature of her work challenges traditional ideologies of permanence and material. Diamond has crafted and painstakingly executed wonderful marvels of patience. curated by Dave Smith
Also exhibiting: Artwork by Discovery Charter School Students in Redsaw's Reception Gallery Paintings by Phil Shimko at 27 Mix (and more work by Charter Students in the back!)
RedSaw Website
No comments:
Post a Comment