Walt Cassidy: The Protective Motif
April 2 – May 9, 2010
Invisible-Exports
www.invisible-exports.com
14a Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 226-5447
"This exhibition features sculptures, photographs, and ink drawings, built around a central theme of “protective motifs”. Imploring narrative abstraction with a combination of transformative and diaristic agendas, my interest is in creating aesthetic fields of color, line and surface. Each composition is at the same time, ambiguous yet highly resonant with subtext.
The introductory suite of photographs, The Inferior Orbs, 2006, serves as an alphabet to the remaining works in the exhibition, formally and conceptually. Featuring circular sculptures built exclusively for the staging of each photograph, they reference a densely layered symbolism and biographical narration that are ongoing features of my work.
In a second series, Paper Photos, 2009, subject matter is constructed out of cut arrangements of colored paper mounted to a wall and then photographed. In using materials so close in appearance to the final pigment on rag prints, the photographic plane is severely narrowed to hand cut lines and subtle shadows created by the paper curling away from the surface ground. What remains, is a heavily saturated and vibrating graphic motif.
The exhibition continues with a series of wall-based sculptures constructed of cut brass foils, wire, and fabric suspended in plywood frames. The largest of these works, Nail Bomb, 2009, illustrates an ambient field of tiny circles and fragments wired together in what appears to be, without the knowledge of the title, a romantically choreographed abstraction. Originally begun as a conceptual parallel to the idea of prayer beads, the piece metaphorically describes emotional violence and abuse, and serves as a meditation on surrender. This spiritual utility infuses not just this work, but emanates throughout the exhibition as a whole."
Walt Cassidy
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