Ivy Dachman "What Was, What Is"

A.I.R. Gallery

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In her third solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery titled, What Was What Is, Ivy Dachman shows abstract paintings constructed of charcoal, oil and wax on canvas, as well as a series of small gouaches on board. In these works, poetic relationships are achieved by the mysterious employment of abstraction that is not easily referenced to traditional compositional models
or figure ground relationships.

Subtle tonal shifts, overlapping shapes which waver between organic and geometric defined by line and made ambiguous by color and brushwork that is sometimes delicate, sometimes obvious and deliberate mark Dachman’s recent works. The pieces in What Was What Is are made up of forms that crowd the rectangle and live in a shallow area close to the surface, as well as negative areas that hint at a deeper space beyond. The artist’s painterly abstractions combine tension and compression, line, plane and point.

The exhibition title, What Was What Is, refers to the paintings, as well as the studio process – the working through of the issues of a piece or series, the handling of the materials, the constant back and forth of examination, reflection, and action, which eventually distills a painting or drawing into a resolved, finished work.

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Schedule

from September 09, 2009 to October 04, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Ivy Dachman

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