ELIZABETH GLAESSNER – HEAD GAMES
2024-07-15Elizabeth Glaessner often begins a new painting with a pour of oil paint. As it pools on the surface of her canvases, it becomes something to which she can react; she pushes, spreads, layers, builds up, or wipes away paint to create mysteriously ethereal figures that consume her compositions. Industrial brushes, handles, and squeegees are all implements to shift paint into full, leggy figures, typically nude. Bright, saturated colors meet more muted or earth tones; facial features and other minute details emerge through a
convergence of formal relationships. These figures are often depicted in moments of movement or transition (perhaps swinging a club, floating in a body of water, mid-embrace, or looking and merging with their own reflections.) Glaessner’s process, like the figures she comes to depict, is about transformation.
Opposite – Head Games, 2023
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024
Perrotin
1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi
Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
