Jessica Weiss's Present, a show of recent paintings, through April 2 at 490 Atlantic Avenue Gallery, features new painting-collages. See Weiss' personal website for professional photos.
Weiss sifts through wallpaper patterns collected over the years, shifting scale by screenprinting the patterns.
This body of work transformed the animals in her 2016 Outlet exhibition into figures after travels to India and later, the pandemic. Old clothing, in tandem with paint and pattern, bring uncanny, compressed bodies to the work.
Painting with oil and hogs hair brushes, Weiss scumbles paint into the surface, similar to rubbing, thenfabrics are laid in. Everything flows and it's casual.
In a recent talk with Glenn Goldberg Weiss spoke of her Buddhist practice and the tenderness in her figures. True to Buddhism, lived experience isn't all bouquets and sunshine. Equal weight is paid to darker aspects of life via pressed clothing, postures, how pattern obliterates form then reveals it again.
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Present counterpoints Then and Now, Robert Kushner's tour de force at DC Moore: a gorgeous installation owing to the museum-scale of Kushner's early fabric pieces.
These hand-painted fabrics are detailed with swags and ties that drape like window treatments and clothing.
The paintings use both oil and acrylic, the oil as a barrier for acrylic pours.
Reversals of figure and ground keep the surface a surprise.
Beautiful balance of work in the space.
Lovely, surprising fabric works--
Unexpected patterns and textures
And swags.
Like a little ruffled blouse that's really a curtain, or
a painting, or a garden.
A favorite detail from the painting below.
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