Kristin Beal-Degrandmont’s shadow and movement based Indigenous Territory opens at ADA gallery today at 7pm.
“My studio practice unites my training in painting and drawing with technology. Historically, painting has used pictorial representation to enact Alberti’s metaphor of the ‘window.’ This employed painting as a metaphor for the window, and the window as a metaphor for painting. The Renaissance established this classical screen as the space for images of the world to be recorded. The images of our world are now developing through new interactive technologies. I believe the resilience of painting reveals itself through its ability to adapt its fundamental practices to new mediums.
The fallibility of man in the face of technology’s guarantee exposes a culture that has created a pathetic and histrionic world-view; one that has allowed technology to take precedence in our lives causing the steady reduction of contact with the living world. By mediating the aesthetics of mark making and gesture through the promise of technology my work feeds from the Melodrama. I am interested in this interplay between humans and their surroundings; in the thoughts, feelings, memories and interpretations evoked by a landscape, and by the sentimental aestheticization of ones homeland.
My work seeks to isolate points of beauty, commonality and memory or déjà vu, either recreated or frozen in various ways to frame the viewer’s experience. As a child in the Midwest, I grew up riding along the expansive landscape. The cinematic experience of riding in the car; the window breaking up the landscape like scenes, or stills on film. Our collective hopes and dreams projected onto that vast horizon. I am looking to capture different types of pictorial space that embody the mark as relief, or as movement allowing the viewer to become further spatially orientated with the work. Shadow is used to evoke feelings of the past, or of a dream, there is magic and beauty and promise. Rather than capturing one static moment in time, my work employs various notions of time in order to convey several moments; be they layered in video or recreated in relief, time is orchestrated and controlled.” Kristin Beal-Degrandmont’s artist statement
More information at kristinbeal.tripod.com
ada gallery 228 west broad street richmond virginia
gallery hours: monday through friday noon – five pm
www.adagallery.com
Kristin Beal-Degrandmont’s shadow and movement based Indigenous Territory opens at ADA gallery today at 7pm.
“My studio practice unites my training in painting and drawing with technology. Historically, painting has used pictorial representation to enact Alberti’s metaphor of the ‘window.’ This employed painting as a metaphor for the window, and the window as a metaphor for painting. The Renaissance established this classical screen as the space for images of the world to be recorded. The images of our world are now developing through new interactive technologies. I believe the resilience of painting reveals itself through its ability to adapt its fundamental practices to new mediums.
The fallibility of man in the face of technology’s guarantee exposes a culture that has created a pathetic and histrionic world-view; one that has allowed technology to take precedence in our lives causing the steady reduction of contact with the living world. By mediating the aesthetics of mark making and gesture through the promise of technology my work feeds from the Melodrama. I am interested in this interplay between humans and their surroundings; in the thoughts, feelings, memories and interpretations evoked by a landscape, and by the sentimental aestheticization of ones homeland.
My work seeks to isolate points of beauty, commonality and memory or déjà vu, either recreated or frozen in various ways to frame the viewer’s experience. As a child in the Midwest, I grew up riding along the expansive landscape. The cinematic experience of riding in the car; the window breaking up the landscape like scenes, or stills on film. Our collective hopes and dreams projected onto that vast horizon. I am looking to capture different types of pictorial space that embody the mark as relief, or as movement allowing the viewer to become further spatially orientated with the work. Shadow is used to evoke feelings of the past, or of a dream, there is magic and beauty and promise. Rather than capturing one static moment in time, my work employs various notions of time in order to convey several moments; be they layered in video or recreated in relief, time is orchestrated and controlled.” Kristin Beal-Degrandmont’s artist statement
More information at kristinbeal.tripod.com
ada gallery 228 west broad street richmond virginia
gallery hours: monday through friday noon – five pm
www.adagallery.com
