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Eleanor AldrichSNAKE EYES - Contemporary mixed media, textural figure painting with tacks2019
2019
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In “Snake Eyes”, Eleanor Aldrich uses oil, silicone, enamel, thumbtacks, and sharpie on canvas to create a visceral exploration into a lounging back. The mixed-media painting investigates a shirt and jeans through layers of seeping silicone and an adornment of thumbtacks. A loose grid to the right of the figure faintly suggests a hammock or wrought iron chair whose sturdiness is questioned by the weight of the figure. Not even the edges of the painting can contain the body, as it simultaneously sags and rises off the canvas.
“Snake Eyes” is part of Eleanor Aldrich’s critically acclaimed show “Main Squeeze” at Channel to Channel in Nashville, TN. It has been featured in ArtForum, Burnaway, and the Nashville Scene. Commenting on modern painting’s use of the grid, Emily Weiner of ArtForum writes: "Eleanor Aldrich reconsiders this convention, favoring a grittier approach to both material and subject." Aldrich's use of the grid has also been explored by Burnaway writer Melinda Baker who states: "These latticed objects dominate the foreground of each work and serve as de facto modernist grids (albeit shabby ones) that are warped by the weight of the figures’ bodies pressing into them with surrealistic force." She continues: "The works merge painting and sculpture, as well as representation and abstraction, and teeter on the edge of image and object, tricking your perception."
- Creator:Eleanor Aldrich (American)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Signal Mountain, TN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98514138782
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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