May Issue 2000
Blink! Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Pernille Dake
Blink!, in Charleston,
SC, will host an exhibit entitled, Momentums in Space,
featuring new works by Pernille Dake. The exhibit opens May 5
and continues through June 30, 2000.
Momentums in Space
is a foray of colors and shapes showing Dake's latest pursuits
into the investigative language of color and dimension.
The core feature in Momentums in Space is the NUMBer
series (oil on canvas) wherein Dake seems to be on a ravenous
search for the ultimate tension. The pure form of abstract expressionism
free up confined consciousness, but color contrasts designate
definite borders and concentration. Herein space is redefined
and released; the paintings creates a frame of multiple reference
which amass, distinguish and then ostracize the definite in favor
of more subjective room to roam; the titles (NUMBer...) also present
a pun on an artists' continuous need to document and number their
work.
The NUMBer paintings tangibly recall mappings of a landscape. In a cognitive perception they chart the haphazard vision of the human mind. An accumulation of information and visions collide and necessitate a coincidental pattern of balance and friction. The paintings confirm the artistic ground-work of the times as a status quo we seem to have snubbed in the race toward "The New"; in the NUMBer series the existential future of art bow in favor of a celebration of the space we are currently in.
The paintings in Momentums
in Space connect more through size (most 12 x 9 inches) than
though theme. Besides the NUMBer series Dake shows small
studies of the human body in oil on canvas. The environments of
color and space are offset by an internal spatial relation with,
as well as the longing for, the human figure. The exploration
of form and deliberate environments of color and space illuminate
the ultimate tangibility in an individual. Refreshingly distorted,
Dake's human figure paintings ascertain originality.
Lastly, Dake networks small scale artistic
expression with a series of body sculptures in glazed clay on
granite. They are recollections of the human form fulfilling conscious,
as well as unconscious, observation. The Clay sculptures are small,
investigative notions of how we perceive the human body. They
emphasize and distort details of our bodies often thought to be
imperfections - But it is indeed the interactions of all the parts
of the body which create complexity and originality. Particularly
intriguing are joints and bones which seem to be protruding; the
sculptures bring together muscular elasticity and bony poignance.
Dake works the artistic spans of Neo-Expressionism and Conceptualism
with the ease of her Danish heritage of Concretism; closely connected
to the Cobra movement. She applies the layering and spatial theories
of Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko, as well as eludes to bodily
ironies much like Eric Fischl.
In the freeze-framed boundary of the body depictions, as much as in the tension of NUMBer's Abstract Expressionism, a landscape is created; made of ebb and flow; hills and valleys; light and shade. Momentums in Space is a spectacle for a wandering eye; and Blink! has utilized its space constraints to unfold a stimulating tension in this exhibit; it is enveloped in a conscious effort to en-capsule the heroic in small scale pursuits of artistic interpretation.
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