Label Text:
Blocky, pastel fragments (some of them baring teeth) obscure the torso and face of a disjointed figure. Or, do these rectilinear shapes help constitute the figure, a body construed as architecture? Or, does this figure hold up the pile of shapes, legs wide under their weight like the wide-set feet of the comparatively empty desk at right—a body construed as furniture? Evidence of Henriette Grahnert’s process, especially the downward drips of paint fringing the figure, also assert the gravitational pull that acts on each of our bodies as well as on this painting. This is a figure both covered over and constructed by, both supporting and weighed down by, the act of painting itself. Grahnert renders that act visible through dozens of kinds of marks, from sprayed to taped edges, from brushed to splattered, across her canvas’s intensively textured yet fundamentally flat expanse. (Kate Nesin, 2021)
Tags:
anthropomorphic; women; abstract; collages; furniture; bodies Subjects:
Women artists; Art, Abstract; bodies (animal components); Collage; Furniture; Women; Canvas Link to share this object record:
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