Engineering plans and architectural layouts are implied in canvases that feature black line on flat color. She finds inspiration for her abstractions in the mechanical systems that make our world run. The paintings of Tricia Keightley command order. Courtesy of the artists / Photo: Jason Andrew Coburn�s The Spoils (2019) in the foreground. Installation view Take Five at UB Art Gallery at the Center for the Arts (CFA): L to R: Adriane Colburn with Meghan Brady.
Weirdly, this work offers something both assertive and timorous, much in line with the Shinique Smith�s work. The work power-slides to the ground with a circle of painted rocks. Wooden supports bring a three-dimensional framework into the mix while string, thread and yarn serve as connectors. Created and installed specifically at the Anderson Gallery, the work is a wacky Winnebago of a wall hanging, engineered on a drivetrain of remnants of both found and woven fabrics.
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I had followed her Soft Geometry Series with great interest, and in �Take Five,� she explores the epic potential of this series in Soft Weirdo Installation No. In 2018, Melissa Dadourian was one of the seven artists I invited to participate in Norte Maar�s collaborative ballet series, CounterPointe. 1, 2019, thread, yarn, hand dyed fabric, mixed materials, 96 x 192 in. Melissa Dadourian, Soft Wierdo Installation No. Here, the selection of materials connects the subject matter to German sculptor Charlotte Posenenske. Spindles rise where gridded lines meet, forming an abstraction intended to reference pipelines, ship tracks, roads, routes and other overlays of our industrial world. In The Spoils (2019) at the UB Art Gallery at CFA, Colburn composes a geometric matrix of reclaimed wood, paint, granite, and marble on the floor.
These Tinker Toy-like matrices extend drawing into sculpture while compressing sculpture into drawing. Her sophisticated sculptural installations often incorporate bent strips of painted wood and are suspended from the ceiling. With a self-proclaimed �penchant for research and direct experience,� Colburn�s interest in scientific mapping has led her to participate in expeditions in the Arctic and the Amazon. The work of Adriane Colburn was new to me, and seeing her in the context of this show could not have been a better introduction. Brady is brilliant in her ability to render breadth and drama in epic scale while puzzling in representational forms that allude to the human body and objects from the everyday. It�s no wonder Brady�s work has been compared to Betty Woodman�s. With big gestural marks and bold colors, she expands traditional pictorial space pushing painting into the realm of installation. At the Anderson Gallery, her 16-foot, multi-paneled, blue beauty titled Everyday (2018) was a stunner. I first saw her work in April 2018 at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Over the last few years, Meghan Brady has shifted away from painting on stretched canvas and towards site-specific unstretched works often on Tyvek. Installation view Take Five at UB Anderson Gallery: L to R: Meghan Brady�s Everyday (2018) with Meg Lipke�s Blue Elbow Frame, 2018. So with deadlines erased by the pandemic, I welcomed the opportunity to revisit an event that allowed each artist to take great risks in scale, break boundaries between genres in their processes, and push the notion of material as subject matter in their art. Curated by Robert Scalise, the mercurial director at the UB Art Galleries, the show was one of the most ambitious and provocative exhibitions I saw in 2019 thanks to his dynamic eye and insightful juxtapositions. Courtesy of the artists / Photo: Jason AndrewĬontributed by Jason Andrew / It seems only fitting that University at Buffalo, an institution built on the reputation of one of the great female art dealers of the 20 th century, Martha Jackson, would be the one to raise the bar that much higher when it comes to �women�s work.� “Take Five” featured the work of five women: Meghan Brady, Adriane Colburn, Melissa Dadourian, Tricia Keightley, and Meg Lipke. Installation view Take Five at UB Anderson Gallery: L to R: Adriane Colburn, Melissa Dadourian, and Meghan Brady.
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