Angela Gill
dal 11/4/2005 al 7/5/2005
Segnalato da
11/4/2005
Angela Gill
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Cast, (v) to give a form to / to form into a particular shape by pouring into a mold. This new body of work is artist's response to her year at the British Academy in Rome. Stirred by the frailty of Rome and its architecture, the 'cast' of characters emerges from her manipulation of painted textures.
Cast, (v) to give a form to / to form into a particular shape by pouring into a mold
The Nohra Haime Gallery is pleased to present CAST, an exhibition of Angela Gill's new work which will be on view from April 13th - May 7th, 2005. This new body of work is Gill's response to her year at the British Academy in Rome. The ancient ruins of the great city provided Gill with the inspiration for these moving oils.
Stirred by the frailty of Rome and its architecture, the 'cast' of characters in this exhibition emerges from her manipulation of painted textures. Gill's response to being amongst the fabulous layers of Italy where every building, every wall, every fresco have inviting abstracted surfaces, is to add figurative imagery which creates an evocative combination for her. The visual effects she creates with her textures are stained, neglected, tarnished, rusted, crumbling, fading, disintegrative, atrophic. They all involve the way time physically bites its mark onto, and embellishes, a surface.
The 'story' in Gill's canvases benefits from a forever-unfinished quality, your curiosity for meaning remaining tantalizingly unsatisfied. Gill works best when her subject matter involves potently what cannot be answered, only ever represented. Just like the old city where the imagination runs wild, Gill's work delivers the mind to a time and place of wonderment. In Gill's work, the allure is the concept of 'not knowing' and the result is quite unsettling and beautiful at the same time.
Gill arrives at her images in consideration of words like impermanence, nostalgia, introspection, commemoration, loss, inner mobility, odd visions, fragility, etc and then allows herself to get deliciously distracted by all the other paramount things that come in at you while making a painting. Through the painting process things somehow resolve to a point where the painting takes on its own life, leading the way and settling into its own dynamism.
CAST is Angela Gill's second solo exhibition at the Nohra Haime Gallery. Gill is the recipient of the following grants: Darwin Scholarship, England, Rome Scholarship, British School, Rome, Susan Kasen Summer Fellowship to USA, The Burston Award, Royal College of Art, London, The Daler- Rowney Award, England, The Madame Tussaud's Award, London and the Travel Award, Cite des Arts, Paris
OPENING: Tuesday April 12th, from 6-8 pm
A BREAKFAST TO MEET THE ARTIST WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY APRIL 15 FROM 9 TO 11 A.M. R.S.V.P
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