Saira McLaren “a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell”
Mulherin + Pollard
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Mulherin + Pollard presents “a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell” a recent body of work by Brooklyn-based artist Saira McLaren, which explores issues of femininity, residue and saturation.
“Colour …is a kind of bliss…like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell,” Roland Barthes
Falling lapsing into overwhelming hallucinatory - colour - spreading flowing bleeding staining, soaking merging into both the dream and the nightmare.
The pinks, the reds, the feminine threaten to engulf you — slipping over the white lines, off the white walls.
In paintings, fabric dyes on raw linen and small ceramic works, these ideas associated with chromophobia, the feminine and of generally what is good taste versus the garish, the clashing, and the `made-up` are explored.
- Saira McLaren
[Image: Saira McLaren “Woman in the Weeds” (2013) fabric dye on cut and sewn raw linen, glazed earthenware 62 x 94 in.]
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Schedule
from June 13, 2013 to July 14, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-06-13 from 18:00 to 21:00