Opening Fri 1/4 @ 5 – 9pm
Who knew silhouettes could be so fascinating? Gaze at the works of artist Julie Friedman, when her show Perennial Shift opens @ William Busta Gallery on Fri 1/4.
They say: Outlines and shadows constitute the drama of form, speaking of the limits of things at their simplest and sharpest, and of the dense mystery of substance.
Silhouettes, like the cut-out paper or Black Tyvek ® landscape elements that make up Julie Friedman’s compositions, are a coded version of the houses, trees, wires, and other objects they represent. Yet, although they’re used descriptively, somewhat in the manner of simple drawings, they also have a presence and reality of their own, tautly stretched in mid-air like a spider web. Even as we look at Friedman’s surfaces, which in this show are most often black, our gaze doesn’t so much spread out to the edges of the work, but soaks in, and also glances past, around and behind the object, as with sculptural forms.
That her depictions are of a double nature is one major source of their fascination.
On view through Sat 2/9.
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