Virginia Davis Exhibition
Noho Gallery / M55
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Virginia Davis applies paint or dye directly to the linen threads and then weaves them into a linen canvas which is similar to purchasable painter’s canvas. This technique enables color and image to be embedded in the woven structure and locked inside the canvas. Thus, painting and weaving are materially linked. This comments on the materials of art, referencing the 16th century transition from images realized in fresco or on wood to painting on fabric (oil on linen). The image is below the picture plane and inside the canvas in her deconstructed paintings. Formally, the work explores optical aspects of vision and nuances of value contrast. Color reflects light differently depending on whether it is placed in the warp or weft. The representation of space occurs through color overlay. There is a play of edge, hard and feathered. Theme and variation interact and cumulate. From a perspective of post-modern minimalism, her work presents as its content the beauty, meditative quality, and optical nuance of form inherent in the imagery of the structure of textiles. In another direction, with linen canvas and its embedded image the basic field, she is incorporating a layering of surfaces, e.g. oil painting on the surface, and using "non-traditional" materials such as paper and plastic collage. A current aim is a woven amalgam of complex weave structure and canvas resulting in a surface that is unique with resulting contrast of surface pigment application and embedded color.
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Schedule
from April 01, 2008 to April 19, 2008