Lisa Fischetti “About A Window”
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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About A Window is a careful dissection of a distinctive architectural interface. In a series of recent oil on wood panel paintings by Lisa Fischetti, the window, the unifying compositional motif, is considered with clean, minimalist precision. At once intimate and objective, Fischetti’s work articulates how various segments of the structure can serve to formally and allegorically alter our line of sight. Fischetti examines how the construction of the window’s pane, shade, and frame can both extend and constrict the limits of what is observed. The grid, the fundamental building block of the structure, confines the view, but also proposes a sense of expansion. Evoking Charles and Ray Eame’s film Powers of Ten, Fischetti considers the window’s potential to demonstrate orders of magnitude. The structure acts as a lens, enabling the eye to zoom in, fragmenting and flattening a landscape, and to zoom out, presenting a swell of vastness. There are also subtle details to be found within the painting’s minimalist quality. Fischetti does not seek to emancipate the grid but rather embraces it. Each piece is based off of a 7 x 7” square; her palette cycles through five colors. Adhering to these principles of standardization allows the less obvious to become increasingly more so. The negative space between each painting, for instance, has its own depth, confirming each work’s modular non-directional object hood, but also linking them together. Additionally, while the work has sculptural dimensionality, it does not dismiss its skin of painterly flatness. Lisa Fischetti received her BA in Art History from Vassar College in 1978 and her MArch from the University of Virginia in 1982. She studied painting while at Vassar and at UVA, including a semester in Venice. She has been practicing architecture, designing furniture and painting for the last thirty years and has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture at NJIT in Newark, NJ. Lisa currently lives in Princeton, NJ where she has her design studio
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from January 28, 2014 to February 22, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-01-30 from 17:00 to 20:00