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Eleanor Aldrich
WICKED ONE - A Collaboration with Guen Montgomery - Mixed Media Painting

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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    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Signal Mountain, TN
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU98516611202

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