Iconography of Class

Comment

Painters Comment by Resident Curator on July 4, 2011 at 9:25am

Curator’s Comment:

 

What a magnificent installation.  I find the restrained surfaces of your individual mixed media pieces (are they etched with chine colle?) to be beautiful, but disquieting. The umber tones look scrubbed into the surface; aged and worn.  Small stories surface within individual works, as single frame narratives emerge in the grid.  An Iconography of Class exquisitely pulls together their didactic renderings within a hierarchal structure. The piece of furniture like sculptural structure appears as chinoiserie pattern from a distance- the delicate swirls of adornment belie the burning destruction and industrial isolation.  I particularly like how the heavy structure rests on thin Chippendales-esque legs.  The weight of its story seems to rest on unsure spindles that do belong to another class of imagery.

Painters Comment by Quigley on May 25, 2009 at 12:34pm

These are very interesting

Sculptors Comment by Michael Lownie on May 16, 2009 at 12:51pm

Nice presentation! Love your sepia tones.