Whirlwind of Art NYC: Grid/Weave/Tangle
Last week I flew out to NYC for some Art saturation. Museums, Galleries, the Whitney Biennial, a show, studio visits… it was wonderful. There will be a post about all that, but I thought I’d share the work that really connected to my current exploration of weave and grid and tangle.
I happened to see Jasper John’s “Regrets” series at MOMA and noticed a lot of fabric and weave in his prints! It was interesting to me that though I knew him as a painter since high school, I’d never really seen any of his print work (one of those some-media-privileged-over-others things?). He also directly incorporated cloth and weave into his in 0-9 series on display there. Last week I was just working out how I would incorporate the weave into my first copper plate and here was a famous artist doing just that. Serendipitously later that day I saw another Jasper Johns piece at Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea related to the 0-9 prints at MOMA which was done as a bronze sculpture … again with the weave.
The following slide show is made up of the work around NYC, old and new that fed into the shapes and thoughts around grid/weave/tangle that I’ve been exploring.
- Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences (1913)
- Swifts: Paths of Movement (detail)
- wifts: Paths of Movement (detail2)
- Jasper Johns “untitled” (from Regrets series)
- artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) tule fabric layered to create a portrait. These are around 6 feet square.
- artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail2
- artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail
- artist Irfan Onurmen (Gaze Series) detail of painting/mixed media (tule)work
- Jasper Johns (from Regrets series, etching)
- Jasper Johns “0-9” monotypes
- Jasper Johns “0-9” bronze (detail)
- Lu Huasheng “0669” ink on paper (hand drawn grids)
- Lu Huasheng “0669” ink on paper (detail)
- Leon Ferrari “Reflections” (ink on gessoed wood, copper wire, and ink on glass in artist’s painted frame. (1963)
- Leon Ferrari “Reflections” (detail)
- Leon Ferrari “?” (ink on paper) detail
- Leon Ferrari “?” (ink on paper) detail
- Dona Nelson “String Beings” (detail)
- Seen at a bus stop
- Anonymous antique Japanese Textile (seen at PACE, Chelsea)
- Anonymous antique Japanese Textile (seen at PACE, Chelsea)
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