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May Issue 2003
Colleton County Museum in Walterboro, SC, Features Works by Pernille Ægidius Dake
In Walterboro, SC, the Colleton County Museum is hosting Making Room, a traveling art show by Danish artist, Pernille Ægidius Dake. Making Room, which will be on view through the month of May, 2003, asserts pure spatial abstraction by emphasizing color field relations, which is the groundwork for much of our society's modern art. These brightly colored Neo-Abstract Expressionistic paintings range in size from 9" by 12" to 46" by 60".
Dake's works represent Abstract Expressionism in its purest form. She relies on a wide specter of color theory and extensive layer application to research a genre which first took hold in the 1940's. Dake travels artistic spans of Neo-Expressionism and Conceptualism with the backing of her Danish heritage of Concretism. She also applies the spatial theories of Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko without apprehension.
A native of Denmark, Europe, Dake has lived in the US for thirteen years in Central Coast, CA, and Charleston, SC. She currently lives north of New York City. But her connection to the South frequently brings her back.
The work in Making Room consists of a body of work in the NUMBer series that is in part inspired by the flatness one experiences in the Lowcountry of SC. The paintings focus on a structural scale and have solid substance, obscure shadows and a use of contrasting elements. The work is a continuous search for proportional interaction. In the NUMBer series, the color fields are changed, moved and retouched in layers until the whole canvas balances within itself.
The search for the ultimate space must go on in perpetuity-until one is NUMB! The titles also present a pun on the artist's continuous need to document and number work.
Educational components of the show include classroom-related demonstrations and discussions as well as visitor interaction with laminated pieces of paper that will be available on a table in the show area.
The show will travel to the Orangeburg County Arts Center in Orangeburg, SC, in June & July, 2003.
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