POWER FULLY PLACID. The displacement of the missing person was deceptively easy.
Theresa Anderson
2011
faithful faithful place with wooden shutters and yellow roses and crows on ladders and soggy ground squishing under feet
Found photograph (bold crude fragile flower), minimalist watercolor (blue rolls of fabric), three king kong photo-collages, books and magazines on reading bench and lamp, 8 constructivist paintings of home cut out collected from Kevin Curry’s discards from his PlatteForum Artist Residency cut up and reassembled hung salon style on ready pasted sculptured and textured vinyl English wall covering, acrylic, dowels, string, wire, wood, metal, squishy red yarn, 12 bags of your collected memorials disassembled into a crazy quilt, an old wooden lamp base
Similar to encountering the remnants left to distinguish and memorialize a missing person –the objects in the exhibition become a new placeholder of reminiscences. Initially painting a large diagrammatic of “the missing person” her special collection of objects are intensified with daily repetitive motions. The accumulation of marks inherent in basting, painting, medicating, dripping, tying, draping, drilling, cutting, and sewing temporarily disguise a once taut linear narrative.
HAPPY SOFT DEMURE TEXTURED CRAZY PLUSH RED INTERRUPTION QUILT SMALL FRAMING ANGULAR BRILLIANT ANGRY HOME DISCARDED SIGNATURE EDGES FLOPPY PRECISE COVERING MINIMAL SLIGHT PRETTY TOUGH BRIGHT TRICKY SNARKY NARROW RICH FLOWERY PRECIOUS SLICK ELOQUENT WRY
2011
painting edges of collected discards cut up and reassembled with acrylic paint, dowels, string, wire, wood, metal and squishy yarn
