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Dianna Molzan
Untitled
2016-17
oil on canvas
70,2 x 58,4 x 7,6 cm / 30 x 23 x 3 inOpen a larger version of the following image in a popup:
Dianna Molzan
Untitled
2016-17
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Dianna Molzan
Untitled
2016-17
(detail)Dianna Molzan
Untitled, 2016-17oil on canvas76,2 x 58,4 x 7,6 cm / 30 x 23 x 3 inFurther images
While firmly grounded in the materials and structural format of painting – canvas, linen, stretcher bars, oil paint, brushes, and palette knife – Molzan constructs singular, nonfigurative painting-objects, sculpted after...While firmly grounded in the materials and structural format of painting – canvas, linen, stretcher bars, oil paint, brushes, and palette knife – Molzan constructs singular, nonfigurative painting-objects, sculpted after abstraction of 1980s-era-textiles, fashion, furniture, and Memphis Group ceramics. She values thing-ness over imagery, sculptural questions of solidity, mass, volume, holes and textural pattern over pictures.
“There are no spontaneous, accidental or expressive gestures here, yet each object is powerfully human and full of handcrafted charm. Molzan balances contained and carefully orchestrated regions of apparent chaos – whole panels strewn with tangled strands of canvas or speckled all over by colourful sprays of paint – with sharply taped-off, hard-edged graphic punctuations.”
-Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum
