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Long after the ASU Art Museum’s groundbreaking “New American City: Artists Look Forward” show came down in 2007, there was a vestige of painter Carrie Marill in the building, just above one of the baseboards in the women’s room — a bright little fragment of a Phoenix landscape, unobtrusive but impossible not to look at once you knew it was there. It was one of several that Marill had placed around the museum in relatively discreet locations for the group show, which brought together 23 artists who lived and worked in Maricopa County at the time.
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Walking into the Carrie Marill exhibit at Lisa Sette Gallery in downtown Phoenix is nothing short of a visual delight. Vibrant pin-stripped colors zigzag across Marill’s canvases, which are largely composed of hard geometric forms painted over raw linen. Her aesthetic is a strident balance of manufacture and modernism, or at least, that’s the first impression that one gets upon entering her most recent exhibit. This is because Marill’s paintings hit the senses with the controlled comfort of painstaking consideration that we have all come to associate with the rigor of abstract art’s very best practioners.
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Back in May, Rachel Hellman at Galleri Urbane had a spectacular show of shaped, minimalist paintings that used a kind of relief sculpture style, but yet was still a painting. Happening at the same time was the Frank Stella show at the Fort Worth Modern with his hybrids of paintings/ sculptures on display. I guess this kind of work is in the zeitgeist, because Conduit Gallery is now featuring Carrie Marill which also plays in this realm of relief painting, but with some noticeable differences that made me pause, think about the work, and then write.
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In order to fully apprehend Elise Ferguson’s sensational new paintings, viewers must make a trip to Greenpoint this weekend; looking at JPEGs just won’t do.
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Exquisitely attuned to the graphic signals of the universe, painter Carrie Marill translates the ephemera of the visual world into intriguing
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There is a city of misremembered buildings inside Suyama Space. The buildings are familiar, but wrong. They stand on the floor, dangle on platforms from the ceiling, and sprout from the wall
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Deborah Aschheim’s work explores memory as an imperative. In response to the threat of forgetting, it undertakes a general effort to remember.
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Elise Ferguson was born in 1964 in Richmond, Virginia and she currently lives and works in New York. She received an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988. She attended residencies at the University of Nevada, Illinois State University, and Socrates Sculpture Park.
Ferguson is a painter, photographer, and sculptor; her works are largely grounded in mathematics and geometry. Whether she has folded large sheets of paper into architectural structures like high-stakes origami, or she has sculpted cement onto a canvas, her deft precision neutralizes overly conceptual narratives. The work is only semi-abstract as it is part sculpture-part painting as well as half simple-half puzzling. Ferguson is not utilizing such opposing dynamisms to construct a commentary on societal or theoretical tensions; she is quite simply collecting odds and ends and sometimes garbage from the streets of New York and composing it like poetry. What the audience witnesses at first glace is attractive, but give it an honest second read and slowly the bedraggled character of the select materials subtly reaches into view. Ferguson’s work showcases her artistic tact, providing a lesson in clemency through the process by which she makes the rough, unwanted, and complicated, approachable and refined.
The artist’s solo and two-person selected exhibitions include: Elise Ferguson. Halsey McKay Gallery/Poject Space, East Hampton (2015); Elise Ferguson, 65Grand, Chicago (2015); Striped Knot, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco (2014); Elise Ferguson/Jonathan Runcio, NADA NY, Romer Young Gallery (2014); Elise Ferguson, Expo Chicago, Romer Young Gallery (2014); Elise Ferguson & David Kennedy Cutler, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York (2012); Elise Ferguson. Halsey McKay Gallery/Poject Space, East Hampton (2011); Capital X, Envoy Gallery, New York (2009); Newport News Moon, Envoy Gallery (2009).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Architectural Impulse, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York (2015); January Show, Mixed Greens, New York (2015); Summer Show, Longhouse Projects, New York (2015); Summer Mixer, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2015); Color as Structure, McKenzie Fine Art, New York (2014); The Last Brucenniel, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York (2014); Paint On Paint Off, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton (2013); Rich-oo-uh'l, Richoo-uh'l, Jolie Laide, Philadelphia (2011); Domestic Goods; Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (2011) Entaglement; Regina Rex, Queens, New York (2011); Printer's Proof; Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York; Default State Network, Raid Projects, Los Angeles and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (2010); Forth Estate, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon (2010).
Ferguson is the recipient of numerous awards and grants which include the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at Expo Chicago, the EAST International Exhibition Grant, Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace Program Grant, Illinois Arts Council: Special Assistance Grant, the C.A.A.P. Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts, and the SIU-Carbondale University Museum Merit Award.
She is currently represented by the Halsey McKay Gallery and the Romer Young Gallery.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
