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19 November - 23 December. |
Frederieke Taylor gallery Frederieke Taylor Gallery is pleased to announce Lisa Sigal's show, "house paint." Recently, Sigal has been making many installations on site, including at Real Art Ways, The Brooklyn Museum, The Weatherspoon Gallery, White Columns and Artists Space. In "house paint," her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Sigal has turned back to her studio to make a number of discreet painting installations which depend less on the exhibition space and more on places that she has observed, places that are often changing, like the space within a painting. Her first show here, "Stone to Wind," opened on September 11, 2001. The following is a letter from Lisa Sigal to Frederieke Taylor from the Spring of 2004. Dear Frederieke, It will be a challenge to switch from making paintings on sites, responding to the measurement of real places, walls, ceilings and windows. For example, in a cavernous and raw Tribeca space I painted a black square on the floor directly under a big black hole in the ceiling. I painted an image on another big square, representing a long view from the rooftop of that same building. I asked my brother to describe the long view from his prison window and I painted my interpretation of his description on the window of the backdoor to the space. The space and my emotional response came together in a magical way. I don’t know how much of this people got from viewing my work. Part of my motivation for abandoning the traditional frame of painting comes from a kind of claustrophobia, a discomfort with human containment. I asked my friend Mark if I could use a line from the introduction of his book on immigration detention. It said, "…their inside surrounds us all." I think it is a beautiful line. It describes how I feel about our ethical and emotional relationship to our world. That first wall painting [Heap, 2001] was very important to me, a way to enhance the access to my work beyond the 52-inch center height at which we hang paintings. One had to walk the length of the painting to see it. I began to question the material substance of walls. Their physical fact often contradicts the shifting nature of our desires. When I dismantle a wall and lean a painting made on a sheet rock surface against a wall I wonder what exists, the illusion or the material. For my next show I would like to make a painting that feels like a book, a painting and a shelter. Warmly, Lisa Sigal Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 to 6 For further information and visuals, please contact the gallery. | |
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