ADRIA ARCH AND ANNE KRINSKY – VIS-À-VIS
2016-11-07Vis-à-Vis: Adria Arch and Anne Krinsky, an exhibition of paintings inspired by traditional Indian folk arts. In 2014, Adria Arch and Anne Krinsky spent a fruitful, sensory-rich month as Artists-in-Residence at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi.
“The two friends lived at the Foundation, engaged with other artists and craftspeople, experienced the visual stimuli of neighboring cities and learned about traditional folk arts of India. They visited markets and museums, met with artisans at paper factories and textile workshops and sought out creative connections between their new environs and their art-making practices…
For Arch, serendipitous exposure to a Foundation exhibition of Hindu shadow-puppets paved the way for a conceptual breakthrough. Lured by the lavishly painted, multi-jointed, two-dimensional puppets of gods and goddesses on view, Arch loved the way that their flat silhouettes doubled as spectacular studies in shape, form, and movement. Their outlines reminded Arch of her own recent experiments with poured-paint pieces… She eagerly set to work … spilling paint on sheets of mylar – a material that in many ways mimicked the translucency of the puppet parchment. Arch waited for the spills to dry, cut out the abstract, fluid forms, glued them to printmaking paper, and then painted additional elements in fulfillment of fanciful, imagined narratives.
For Krinsky, an introduction to Phulkari embroidered textiles from the Punjab served as a jumping off point for a novel paint-on-paper exploration of texture and geometry. Her Sanskriti-inspired series dovetails beautifully with a longtime interest in mining archives and primary source materials – in this case traditional fabrics from the Delhi Craft Museum – to push her practice… In her Phulkari series, Krinsky’s robust reds, rusts, mustards and marigolds – taken directly from the textiles themselves – appear stained, washed, weathered and with tactile, stucco-like qualities thanks to the use of acrylic molding pastes and pumice gels on Khadi papers and on panels.
Opposite – Adria Arch, Turn, 2014
Exhibition runs through to December 4th, 2016
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