The Shape of Sensation brings together creations spanning the last 25 years - paintings on wood, monotypes, drawings, and cardboard sculptures.
Solitary Region, the largest work in the show, is an 8ft by 8 ft mandala-like painting on wood panels inspired, in part, by a talk Robert Thurman gave during a Mind-Science Conference in Cambridge. Kimono, a carved and gauged painting on distressed wood is an exploration of organ-like forms which emerged from a series of black and white monotypes and drawings. Subsequent series of monotypes, including Between the Flowers and the Ground, work towards fracturing space, color and pattern on a smaller scale and introduce the language of textile and text block patterns. Reconfigured and painted violin cases, , including The Day After, emerge as a bridge from the monotypes to more recent sculptural work in the Cardboard Menagerie, a series of life-sized animal-inspired forms joining cardboard, text block prints, and broken musical instruments.
Spitting Red, Monotype, from the series “The Memory of Distance”
Turning Away, Monotype, from the series “The Memory of Distance”
Monotype, from the series “The Memory of Distance”
Monotype, from the series “The Memory of Distance”
Monotype, from the series “The Memory of Distance”
Solitary Region, Painting on wood, 8ft x 8ft
The Day After (9/12), Painted and carved wooden violin cases
Monotype 22”x 30”
Monotype 22”x 30”
