Overflow, afterglow: new work in chromatic figuration : Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Sasha Gordon, Sara Issakharian, Chella Man, Ilana Savdie, Austin Martin White, Rosha Yaghmai

"Color is flexible and amorphous. It lends itself to infinite perceptions and refuses to be definitive. Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration discusses new work by seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to unsettle the figure. In painting, scu...

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Hauptverfasser: Munsell, Liz (VerfasserIn), Parsons, Kristina (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Snyder, James S. (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Jewish Museum [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:"Color is flexible and amorphous. It lends itself to infinite perceptions and refuses to be definitive. Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration discusses new work by seven emerging artists who use supernatural color and uncanny luminescence to unsettle the figure. In painting, sculpture, and installation they push at and spill over the outermost limits of realism. Their high-key palettes and disorienting glow defamiliarize human and anthropomorphic forms, highlighting the figure’s manipulability and continual metamorphosis. These artists refute any fixed notions of the self and thwart reductive interpretations, generating space for resilient, transgressive, and exuberant bodies that cannot be placed or contained. In their work the artists take in and take on the oversaturation of our contemporary moment. They invoke surreal slippages between everyday horrors and their unbound imaginations. This multiethnic, multiracial, and multifaceted group of makers leverage palettes that reflect their cross-cultural allegiances and lived experiences--whether nodding to their respective heritages, to pop culture and digital immersion, or spaces of youthful and queer liberation. Modern and contemporary artists have long offered a counterpoint to strongholds within Western art history that have insisted on a muted palette as an indicator of purity, seriousness, and whiteness—since the Renaissance’s focus on linear perspective and recasting of classical sculpture in white. At a time of deep reconsideration of canons and institutions, this presentation reflects on how color has been othered--perceived as emotional, subjective, and secondary to line in importance. The artists in Overflow, Afterglow embrace color to push against such hierarchies [...]" -- Publisher's website
Beschreibung:Frontispizseite: This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration", organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, May 24 - September 15, 2024
Beschreibung:112 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm
ISBN:9780300275797

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