EXHIBITION

Michelle Grabner

Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel-Stadt, Basel, 06/13/2014 - 07/13/2014

ABOUT

Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie is very pleased to present the second exhibit featuring works by American artist and curator Michelle Grabner. For the past 20 years, Grabner has been dedicated to identifying, indexing, and transposing patterns and building elemental compositions foundational to the language of abstraction. Found compositions such as radial symmetry, gingham weave, and simple warp-and-weft patterns are the organizing principles that structure her paintings, photographs, weavings, and drawings. The re-articulation of vernacular motifs in Grabner's work disperses abstraction's authority into pragmatic and domestic systems of organization while the haptic quality of her work reinforces the monumental thingness of everyday structures.

This exhibition features a new body of photographs that record the shallow depth of fabric. Simple folds or severe cropping of gingham weave becomes the compositional conceit in these images. The shallow space of these photographs open up the topography of surface fibers. The enlarged negative gaps between the fabric's warp-and-weft weave give monumental physicality to commonplace textiles.

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