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Torkwase Dyson’s title evokes both the swift movements of a bird—gliding wing, pecking beak—and the slow ooze of molten lava, as well as its eventual solidification into rock. The movement of the artist’s materials remain in evidence on this work’s surface, too: note the deep blue, translucent drips of paint along the sides of the stretched canvas; the three registers of brushed black, from slightly to highly glossy; the gently quavering line of silver marker describing a circle; the mostly submerged line of silver indicating a triangle beneath it. A high horizon renders Dyson’s drawn circle a dark sun rising from or setting into dark waters, establishing a landscape-oriented compositional relationship of above and below. Considered in this way, the densely painted surface parallel to a viewer’s eyes also summons a body of water perpendicular to the canvas, stretching away like an unfathomable sea. (Kate Nesin, 2021)
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African American; geometry; circles; abstract; conceptual art; black Subjects:
Women artists; African American art; Art, Abstract; Circle; Conceptual art; Geometric patterns; Canvas Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2021.11 |
