Exhibition by Guadalupe Martinez\, Jasmine Reimer\, and Anna Wood
The Commons is proud to pres
ent Anatomize Obfuscation\, an exhibition of three female artists who work
in assemblage sculpture\, collage\, and painting. These artists’ abstract u
se of ostensibly mundane materials speak of these common objects as charged
with aesthetic potential. The formal refinement fostered by these artists
displays a loving-connection for their ubiquitous materials. The exhibition
includes new work by Guadalupe Martinez\, Jasmine Reimer and Anna Wood.
Martinez and Reimer articulate a kind of deconstruction of the everyday
through their interplay with use value\, form and colour. Their objects res
pond to common systems of organization\, standardized within our material l
andscape. In Reimer's work bundled pieces of insulation\, wood and found ob
jects act as base material for the surreal and uncanny to manifest. Through
the changing nature of Martinez's installation\, realized in concrete cind
erblocks and fabric\, she activates the potenial of her materials in a form
al process. Paintings by Wood move this kind of colloquial experimentation
with materials to the surface\, realizing similiar reductive gestures throu
gh paint and collage.
The liminal space created through abstraction ac
tivates an aesthetic realm of relative non-clarity. The works in Anatomize
Obfuscation seem to breathe and expire simultaneously within their set aest
hetic systems and utilize these systems to navigate spatial and material te
xtures of the quotidian experience.
This exhibition has been organized
by Lee Plested with the assitance of Tobin Gibson. The exhibition will ope
n Wednesday January 16\, 7-9pm\, artists will be in attendance.