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Swathed in Color, Line and Stitches is The CAMP Gallery’s summer exhibition bringing together artists: Brittany Clifford, Evelyn Politzer, Gabrielle Torres and Eden Quispe. Looking more at what brings us together each artist tells stories, weaves connections through their varied mediums. Sharing their individual cares these artists offer respite from chaos and invite the viewer into the tranquility of their individual practices brought on through palette and line, all held together by the artist’s wish.
Line work is often attributed to the work of abstract artists, working on canvas and with paint - which is clearly seen in the works of local artist: Brittany Clifford. Interestingly though, Clifford softens her line, adds a curve to it - suggesting a different path than that which is the standard - beginning, end. Clifford’s lines allow for distraction, imagination and mirrors the ‘ups and downs’ of a day. Her colors also become unified symphonies of joy, mixing and melding, combining and connecting hues and tones heralding one to enter the mix. The physicality of her work also suggests the need to resolve unidentified conflicts - for example, the initial conflict is the canvas itself - standing resolute in its blank state. Clifford approaches this barricade with confidence and a notion of rebellion in that she conquers the canvas, breaks some rules along the way, and ends up with her voice, her vision standing where once their was emptiness. The next, and maybe the most confounding conflict an artist faces is their voice - and how can it be heard by someone else. Clifford overcomes this obstacle by keeping meaning, externally fluid, while intimately personal - showing the connections of human experience. We do not need to experience exactly what the artist paints to be affected by the work.
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| Evelyn Politzer |
Evelyn Politzer in her series focused on the sea, takes fiber and creates lines that ripple through the work. Her work stimulates one back to shorelines, absorbing the rush of the surf, while imagining the underneath, while just being. Politzer stitches together individual threads into a swath of imagination, heralding and opening the doors to “be-ingness.” In the series, the idea of becoming whole by approaching the work, overshadows the moment by encouraging the viewer to step outside of the the lines. The lines in the work both stand alone, but also are highly reliant on the other - creating an amphibious nuance of interdependency. Politzer, stands comfortably in the unconscious, while simultaneously rooted in higher consciousness - embracing this duality is key to the method behind interpretation.
Stitching lines and weaving resolutions Gabrielle Torres creates living, breathing swathes of color, texture, line, and of course, stitches. Taking deep colors, symbolic and rich, Torres brings together not only her lines, but the lines of the environment around her, as well as the rhythm of life. Her works speaks to a universal reliance on co-existence and memory. The Wilton Street Rhythm Series, speaks and begins from a marriage of memory and music to where it expands beyond the artist’s original intent. Fusing the creation of the work with blues, Torres interprets the music, and her reaction thus creating almost a web of feeling bound through thread and jazz.
As a whole, when brought together, the artists and their works in this exhibition, explore, from different plaines the connection we all share, the dependence not only of self, but on each other. Reaching from the internal, the daily, and the environment - the art presents an unification of difference, that when all is said and done, is that which makes society. The exhibition asks us all to come together and relish the components that will leave us with the expectation of welcoming each other, recognizing the universal of being human; being besieged by conflict, embraced by lived experience, and united by both.
