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Eleanor AldrichNANCY & THE CIPHER- Embossing and Spray Paint Technique Depicting Nancy Drew2022
2022
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I often base my work on the covers of Nancy Drew books. She is illustrated as a doubly conscious figure: partially mugging for the viewer, and partially involved in her surroundings. Though she is an active participant and driving force in the stories; on the cover image she is always a victim or bystander. Her meetings with unknown spaces, shadows of strangers, and mysterious objects function as kitchy metaphors for my own anxieties. Like traditional images of girls and women in art she is a subject/object on unfriendly ground. In my work the female body is in quiet rebellion— the illusion of form attracts the viewer but on closer inspection offers an external shell in lieu of flesh, and there is a feeling of excess and an element of risk that hints at barely controlled femininity.
This painting shows a new technique I came up with where I draw with caulking on the back of a raw canvas, which shrinks it in places. I then use spray paint to enhance the shadows and bring out the figure. Both are of Nancy Drew contemplating a mysterious object.
- Creator:Eleanor Aldrich (American)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Signal Mountain, TN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98519645392
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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