NYAB Event - Danica Phelps "The Cost of Love"

Danica Phelps "The Cost of Love"

Brennan & Griffin

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Brennan & Griffin presents “The Cost of love”, an exhibition of new work by Danica Phelps.

For more than a decade, Phelps has been chronicling her own life through a series of charts and drawings that detail the passing of time and her daily actions. Working serially and using self imposed limits, Phelps has created a system of pointed stripes that correlate to her income, expenses, and debt. Similar to On Kawara and Hanne Darboven, Phelps developed a system to represent time and and her daily activities - tram the mundane to the highly emotional - in a mathematically predetermined and structured code.
For her show at the gallery, Phelps has produced a series of panels that represent a recent turn at events in the artist's life and tar the the First time, do not track the passing of time, but rather chronicles the phenomenon of loss. “The Cost of Love” details the split with her girlfriend through the text at court papers and the subsequent financial fallout. Works in the show combine Phelps' system of painted colored stripes to document her Finances that are interspersed with the legal narrative from the housing court judgement that unfolds word by word from one panel to the next. Again, using her personal lite as her source, Phelps explores highly charged and emotional territory in repetitive and systematic marks with subtle gradations at hue and tone. The Cast at love is remarkable for its elegant illustration of loss which when viewed as a whale, reflects a proiect that is greater than the sum of its parts.