3. Union and Proud

Comment

Comment by Resident Curator on March 10, 2012 at 5:57pm

Curator’s Comment:  

 

I believe I’ve had the very great pleasure of seeing this piece in person in an exhibition entitled Day Job, originating from the Drawing Center in NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian?   Hopefully I’ve gotten it right…It’s an absolutely wonderful piece, full of curious “accidental” marks and surprising voids breaking up layered and sometimes elaborate drawing.  The central portrait anchors the piece formally, as its roundish shape echoes the circular ring-like stains very nicely.  The figure’s sidelong glance further enhances the visual movement, and becomes a focal point from which the more gestural marks seem to emanate before spiraling out onto the open white page.  To me this piece speaks well to the creative process, and the fluctuation of solid form and thought.  The appearance of test swatch color along the bottom is particularly humorous, as it becomes self referential to a finished piece that isn’t all that precise or exacting.   I also find The Rabbi and the Samurai intoxicating in its dense intermingling of representational figural elements within rapid strokes of color and agitated line.  Again, the negative space is jarring and fresh- as if the whirlwind of thought and purpose creating the mélange of life was abruptly halted.