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Eleanor AldrichWICKED ONE - A Collaboration with Guen Montgomery - Mixed Media Painting 2019
2019
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Eleanor Aldrich’s paper and caulking drawings are about the tension between physicality and image. The photographic qualities of the found images used for transfer contrast with the gestural application and thick body of the medium. Her two-sided work is of jackets and shoes- black paper wrinkled on caulking becomes the leather of a worn jacket (that icon of 1950’s cool), but the reverse is a messy and textural squeeze through the tiny grid- the result of pressure from the other side. The transparency of the screen acts as a shadow, creating a false sense of light and depth, yet is very much a material and the ground that holds everything together on closer inspection.
In this exhibition, Aldrich and Montgomery in their respective ways grappled with modernism as an aesthetic and cultural force. One that not only has affected their grandmothers generation but one that has current ramifications for them as female artists. The grid has physical and metaphorical impact for those forced into and through it, and the aesthetic artifacts and influences of the era remain to remind us of the boxes within the grid and how to fit into them.
- Creator:Eleanor Aldrich (American)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 59 in (149.86 cm)Width: 72 in (182.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Signal Mountain, TN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98516611202
Eleanor Aldrich
Eleanor Aldrich was born in Springerville, Arizona. A participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she also holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently lives. She earned her BFA in Painting & Drawing through the Academie Minerva (Groningen, the Netherlands) and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. She was a participant in the Drawing Center’s first Open Sessions, and works in a long-distance collaboration ALDRICH & WEISSBERGER with the artist Barbara Weissberger. Eleanor has had solo shows in Boston, Nashville, Knoxville, Flagstaff, AZ, and at the University of Alabama. Her work has been shown at Saltworks Gallery and White Space (Atlanta, GA), the Drawing Center (New York, NY), Grin (Providence, RI) and Ortega y Gasset (New York, NY). Her work was chosen for 1708 Gallery’s ‘FEED 2013’ (Richmond, VA). She has been awarded an Endowment for the Arts through the Whiteman Foundation, and the Herman E. Spivey Fellowship. Her work has been included in New American Paintings, and reviewed in Art in America and on Artforum. Statement: My work is about the places where the concerns of modernist painting meet my own experiences and the physical reality of the body. Sometimes the encounter is in the application – paint is combed, piped, squished, and sprayed, and paper transfers are rubbed off; playing with ideas of femininity and the purity of paint. The material squeeze invites the empathy of the body and is at times funny, beautiful, revolting, and satisfying. The grid appears as a support- a resist that molds the material as it presses through. In this way the material is metaphoric of conformity and issues of control over one’s body.
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