J. Parker Valentine

Persberichten gebruiken we hier vaker, maar zelden zijn de kort en bondig en correct genoeg dat we deze gewoon in zijn geheel copy+paste en het vervolgens daarbij laten.  Onderstreept is wat ook wij er van gezegd zouden hebben.

Although J. Parker Valentine uses varied visual means including film, photography, collage and sculpture, her central medium and the core of all her practice is drawing. The artist’s entire production is linked to the intrinsic qualities of the sign, the immediacy of gesture, and a tension created by the joining of and passage from one language to another. Abstraction thus exists not simply as a stylistic code, but goes beyond mere form to become the subject of the work, reflecting personal histories and both artistic and cultural inheritances.

For Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections, a new project specifically conceived for Peep-Hole exhibition space, Valentine cut out forms from the drop cloth of another artist, spattered and marked in paint, that become the most vital components of a large wall drawing in the first room. The memory of these found objects merges with a minimal and discontinuous intervention of enigmatic lines, alluding to an interrupted narrative.

Her typical drawings on MDF, usually fragments cut from larger compositions, which precariously lean against the wall, reside on the fine boundary between the two-dimensionality of drawing and the three dimensionality of an object. In the second room of Peep-Hole the artist used leftover MDF panels from another show as a table-like object that, in turn, becomes a support for other works on paper. Within this work, different iconographies intersect, interact, and coincide, where not every constituent is fully visible, but becomes whole.

En daarmee is genoeg gezegd, een goede installatie waarin ook de tekening op de MDF panelen nog als object kan functioneren. Te zien in Milan bij PeepHole

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections

J. Parker Valentine - Cut-Outs-Inter-Sections