NYAB Event - Deborah Wing-Sproul "Surface Tension"

Deborah Wing-Sproul "Surface Tension"

Masters & Pelavin

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Pelavin Gallery ipresents the debut performance of Surface Tension by celebrated performance artist Deborah Wing-Sproul. Surface Tension is Deborah Wing-Sproul's direct response to Anxieties and Alienations by Kate Beck, which is currently on display in Beck's first solo show in NYC: Conditions of Existence. Deborah Wing-Sproul's performance will be showcased during the closing reception of Kate Beck: Conditions of Existence, next Thursday 9 December 2010 from six until eight in the evening.

Deborah Wing-Sproul: Surface Tension In responding to Kate Beck’s painting, Anxieties and Alienations, Wing-Sproul attempts to make visible the kinetic sensibility within her gesture. Surface Tension parallels Beck’s commitment to the seemingly effortless act of a single line, or series of articulated lines. Grasping a sharpened stick of graphite while laying in an aluminum device—with only her feet/ankles and hands/wrists extended—Wing-singlel will slowly travel—moving incrementally over the course of two hours—to draw a sngle 144 inch line in front of Beck's Anxieties and Alienations.

Wing-Sproul states this of her piece:
The gravitational pull in Beck’s Anxieties and Alienations is visceral. In turn, I push (against) gravity instead of falling from it. I am referring to all of her lines, painted and drawn, through the use of a single stroke of graphite...Our works begin and end in different places but we recognize in each others process a shared internal language.