NYAB Event - Angelina Gualdoni “Folds and Fields”

Angelina Gualdoni “Folds and Fields”

Asya Geisberg Gallery

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Asya Geisberg Gallery presents “Folds and Fields”, an exhibition of new paintings by Angelina Gualdoni. This new body of work continues her interest in still life and interiors as the locus of multiplicities, emphasizing simultaneity of spaces, labors, and attentions.

Well known for her approach situated in Color Field painting, Gualdoni begins her paintings by pouring acrylic paint directly onto the canvas, creating overlapping layers of capricious and unpredictable ground. Connecting lineages of stain painting and textile dying and design, she complicates field painting space by incorporating a pattern painted on the backside of the canvas, creating a metaphor from the seepage of paint for the impermeability of boundaries such as front and back, and before and after. These textile patterns, sourced from early-20th century women artists such as Sonia Delaunay or Barbara Stepanova, take on architectural scale and form the backdrop for interiors and table-top tableaux. As these women artists, some from the Bauhaus school, worked both as painters and as textile designers, Gualdoni places equal emphasis on their genre-blending careers as on their insistence on inserting lived experience into the constricted categories of fine art.

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• Painting

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