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| May 30 - June 22, 2002 |
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seven crowns
arma christi |
Everyday green (and other devotional works)pairs together medieval nuns ’drawings and other manifestations of female monastic life with the formal syntax of Martha Stewart colour combination paint chips.In their original form,the paint chips offer consumers equal access to colour combinations guaranteed to work —carefully selected and approved by the arbiter of idealized,middle class taste,Martha Stewart.When modified,these paint chips refer to both material and devotional aspects of feminine desire.These ifferent levels of interiority play between reverence and irreverence. Continuing to borrow from the palette and format of the Martha Stewart paint chips,large scale recreations explore the relationship of femininity to middle class taste.Martha Stewart meets Andy Warhol and the relative obscurity of the female monastic imagery is further aggrandized.Recalling a sixties pop art aesthetic,these works seek to question the relation- ship of women to paint.The everyday,domestic,feminine,hand held,and mass produced qualities of the paint chips are transformed into the characteristically male,icon-like,over- sized,high art status of pop art and colour field painting. The original paint chips in their unaltered form are made by printing a thin layer of latex paint —themselves little,mass produced paintings.Re-created on a large scale,the paint chip simultaneously becomes unique artifact and the material which it advertises,an object wor- thy of the taste it purports to give. |
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