Phoebe Washburn “My Rubies and My Diamonds”
Josee Bienvenu Gallery
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Josée Bienvenu Gallery presents, “My Rubies and My Diamonds”, an exhibition of recent works on paper by Phoebe Washburn. The exhibition, in collaboration with Zach Feuer Gallery, is Phoebe Washburn’s first one-person show with the gallery.
Phoebe Washburn is known for her sprawling installations combining a process driven studio practice with materials of everyday architectural life. Her work explores generative systems based on absurd patterns of production often created by inefficiency. The rules that govern Washburn’s systems inform her sculptural installations, drawings and paintings, formally and conceptually. It is the first time an exhibition is dedicated to her works on paper. The show will be comprised of paintings and drawings on newsprint, made on single or quadruple sheets.
Systems, rules, problems, behaviors, and the relationship between one activity to another influence her drawing process and these unfold and develop organically as the paintings/drawings evolve. Sometimes the works reference activities that occurred in existing installations. At times these memories get exaggerated and overblown; for example, stacking small pieces of wood become stacking plastic cups on the moon. Drawing and painting on newspaper is similar to building a structure with found wood. Newspapers come from the real world and a larger system that is constantly in motion. Each sheet is dated and considered recorded history although it becomes immediately disposable as old news. The existing information on the newspaper provides a point of departure for the drawings. Even if most of the information is ultimately covered up, it is layered underneath and still affects the drawing on many levels.
Playing with the ideas of looking at something, through something or in something is elemental to these works. It manifests in different ways: the background field, the porthole, the arena, the moon, and the wormhole. Sometimes these ways of looking and viewing are happening simultaneously.
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Schedule
from September 13, 2012 to October 27, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00