2/10/2001
Delinquent Paintings
ecArt, London
In these new paintings Frances Aviva Blane seeks to explore a pictorial space where things go wrong visually. The paintings are unashamedly about paint and how it reacts when chopped up, broken down, and disturbed.
In these new paintings Frances Aviva Blane seeks to
explore a pictorial space where things go wrong
visually. The paintings are unashamedly about paint
and how it reacts when chopped up, broken down,
and disturbed.
These ten paintings work as an installation in which
the very essence is corrupt;
brushstrokes fail and splatter; forms fragment and
lines disconnect, leaving the substance of the paint
to disintegrate.
Blane manipulates the colour to its logical extreme.
The pink is of a pitch reminiscent of bubble gum, ice
cream and cherry blossom.
This sickly sweet nostalgia is counteracted by rough
handling and violent gesture.
The black is cold and shiny. It speaks of a
nightmare void.
This combination of lush sensuality and deep torpor
introduces an air of dis-ease.
It is a cacophony of raw emotion and blind
physicality.
A statement of things going awry lines breaking
down and cancelled beginnings.
In short a statement of failure.
Blane has always made a virtue of the inelegant. Her
facility with paint has never been more assured.
Great viscous daubs of strawberry pink puncture and
splash, coalescing uneasily amongst amorphous
black shapes that dissolve and die.
The paint is allowed to find its natural space and
form and it is this affirmation of material life and
physicality which ultimately offers energy and
renewal.
Frances Aviva Blane was recently an award winner
in the Open Drawing Show, Cheltenham and
Gloucester.
Last year she exhibited her work in London in an
exhibition with John McLean.
She was included in the UKART2000 in Berlin
sponsored by the British Council, in the exhibition
‘before now. and after’ which took place both in
London and in Berlin.
She will exhibit her work again in London in
November this year and in Berlin later on next year
together with Basil Beatie.
Exhibition at: 15 Great Sutton
Street, Clerkenwell, EC1
3 October - 16 November 2001 wed-sat 12 - 6 pm or by appointment
For further information and visuals please contact:
ecArt (Angela Diamandidou) t+44 (0)20 7729 7555 f+44 (0)20 8455 4548 mb 0770
394 1515
ecArt: 135 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3BX (by
appointment only)