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Bill Thompson
Limbo 1, Limbo 2
In a blank square or rectangle, the corners are the only details, with the four sides being responsible for their creation, as well as their unification. In the “Limbo” series, I provide the corners with an alternative route to connect with each other – one that is organic and loose, in sharp contrast to the rigid perimeter. “Limbo” represents the initial liberation of the picture plane and the resulting state of flux.
Kelly Sherman
Brides 1-5
Kelly Sherman is the 2006 winner of ICA/Boston's prestigious Foster Prize. 'Brides' is an exploration of contemporary culture's broad objectification of brides and its simultaneous reverence of this very same objectification. The work also engages topics of beauty, femininity, and cultural expectation, as well as the struggles of personal identity.
Richard Ryan
nine blue poppies
My “Nine Blue Poppies” woodcut project began as a gouache study for a large painting. Over the last fourteen years I have been made a number of paintings of things that grow on my property, either in my garden, or wild in the landscape. Last year was a good year for our poppy plants; the flowers were large and particularly malevolent. There were six main thoughts in my mind when I decided to try to use these flowers for a painting: their dark beauty, the color blue, our current wars in the middle east, the anti war poetry of the first world war in Europe, the heroin trade, and one of my favorite songs by Captain Beefheart, “Veterans Day Poppy”. These thoughts kept combining and recombining in various forms of meanings, ironies, and paradoxes. I decided this would do for a start.
Kelly Sherman
To Move (Ours. Mine.)
As the title suggests, To Move (Ours. Mine.) is comprised of two lists of household items to move. Printed using a photoetching process, both were made from the same narrow copper plate. One print details the belongings of a couple: bed, files, sewing machine, camping & sports equipment, etc. The other evidences many erasures. Describing the belongings of only one: file, sewing machine, camping equipment, etc., it reveals an alteration of the original list. Gray smudges are the meager remnants of the many missing items, lone evidence of where the copper printing plate was ground down for removal.
Ultimately, To Move (Ours. Mine.) presents a narrative of a union disintegrated. The lists together address the topics of unity, loss, heartbreak, memory, and even consumerism. This story of moving—moving in and moving out—is told only through the material items the characters own, through which objects they share, which they keep, and which they lose. This simple approach to depicting such complex topics is what interests me most: that two stark lists might possibly relate the strain and emotion of love lost. Kelly Sherman, May 2007
Both lists were printed in an edition of 60 on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper and are included in a single frame designed by the artist. They are currently available at a special pre-publication price. Please contact Director James Stroud for details.
