Martha MacLeish at Prince Street Gallery

July 17, 2009 by Chris

A couple more images after the cut.

on July 17, 2009 at 6:01 am | Reply Chris

I liked this quote from her statement about the show:

“I am interested in isolating the spatial quirks and ambiguities that I find so compelling in painting, and understanding how these can be experienced as forms that inhabit our space. I am also interested in how the strong, localized color of the plastics I use can be made to behave more lithely through optical mixture of stripes and through the overlay of transparent shadows as the forms bend in space. “
on July 18, 2009 at 8:47 am | Reply carla

She’s working in interesting territory. These really do have the visual/guttural “umph” one experiences with painting.
on July 18, 2009 at 10:00 am | Reply matt ballou

i agree with carla regarding that “umph,” especially with “dog watch” and “somersault”. there are a few artists out there who make me jealous… wanting to try my hand at what they’re doing (one of the primary motivations behind wanting to be a painter, no?). martha is one of them.
on July 21, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Reply Sam K

I’m digging these, too. They remind me of certain of the spaces in much older painting (Giotto comes to mind) – like if you were to build in 3D what the 2D appears to be.
on July 26, 2009 at 9:52 pm | Reply matt ballou

someone to cross reference with macleish:

tamara zahaykevich

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