In Review it's been a while.............Still Going

As the title suggests it has been a while since I have visited my blogspot and contributed and though I have completed a few exhibitions during that time allot has changed. My studio where I based my practice is gone or more accurately I have gone from it. My life circumstances are also changed and what I can only describe as the hardest year of my life being the entire 2012 I am still here and I am still positive and most importantly I still consider myself an artist of some worth, even though that may not be reciprocated in my lifetime or anybody else for that matter. As I write now I remind myself of the comfort of the actuality of  describing where I am at and what I am doing like a conversation with the unknown though it may be one way it's still a conversation and I am happy to continue.

Now that's out the way I would like to run through a solo show and a couple of groups shows I completed last year, the first being a solo show exhibited at Five Walls Projects which was conveniently located next door to my former studio.
Here are some images of that exhibition...

Light Discussions, installation view 1 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 2 
acrylic wall work over adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 3 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 4 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 5 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 6 
reflections from gallery windows , 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 7 
acrylic wall work and acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 8 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 9 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 10 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 11 
exterior view of gallery, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 12 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 13 
exterior view of gallery, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

Light Discussions, installation view 14 
acrylic over photographic paper and adhesive tape, 2012.

                                                              CopyrightÓPatricia Todarello 2012

  

Light Discussions project 2 (in progress)

One of the advantages that I am finding in working in such a large studio space is that I am able to play with configurations or assemblages of artworks and get a real sense of how these works might look. In particular in creating a tangible experiences rather than a proposed one. I am able to decipher how  the visual experience enacts the viewed experience of these artworks in what would be a more likely scenario of their display in an exhibition.

The next series of photos documents that played out scenario and there interesting to look at even though this might not be the final display. The experience of setting out playing with variations of assembled works then documenting this series of works for me is a way to progress to a far more profound assemblage or installation. Clarified in its overt simplicity of both material and construction yet complex through time and the viewed experience revealing layered references and expanding meanings to the actual materials and physical forms on display.

LIGHT DISCUSSIONS Introduction to a major project

I have been working through a series of experimental works for about two years now and the limitations

of time have played their part in the time that has lapsed in revealing these projects. My plan is to divide

this major project into a series of seven separate projects under the same working title "Light Discussions".

As separate contained bodies of work I had hoped to have the opportunity to exhibit each project in

other spaces as well as my studio.

I didn't think I would be forced to waist so much time preparing a proposed exhibit and then waiting for

the usual thanks but no thanks replies from galleries. This first project is an important body of work for me

and I think it's pointless to wait another six or so months waiting for yet another rejection as I don't think that

the problem is the quality of my artwork. A somewhat downgraded solution to this is that I will just post

these artworks on my blogspot and maybe engage some audience with the opportunity to view these works

now stored and packed away.

The following photographs will display both individual and installation views. This would have been the first exhibit of this major project and this brief overview explains the general direction of this body of work.

Light Discussions offers a display of simple assemblages in reductive format that create interplay between 

painting and photography bringing forward light and reflection as complimentary mediums, that further affect

the viewers use of space experience of time through light and lightness.


 The next phase of works are currently in progress and I have a few studio views that preview that progress.



  




 




 



 



 



 

Photographic documentation of Marking Time exhibited Oct /Nov 2011

The following images are photos of the latest Studio1projects exhibition Marking Time. I created a selection of views. If one thing I can say is that the documentation of this show views like a watered down version of the actual viewed experience  of these works in my studio. You don't experience the texture colour or material of the artworks and in doing so most of the context and real meaning of these works are lost. I don't consider this a valid way to look at my work but when I think about it the way I experience a large majority of artworks through books and publications maybe its not that much different to what I do the difference maybe that I don't have much choice in the matter.