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Curator Flower Picard and SPACE 151 are proud to present San Francisco-based artists Vanesa Gingold and Mary Button Durell in the two-person show, Volupté. Please join us for the opening reception on July 20, 2017 to meet the artists and see their work.
This exhibition explores the natural genesis of material and form through light, translucency, surface texture and structure. Bringing together sculpture, painting and drawing, Volupté highlights a series of works that suggest mappings of the intangible formations that sustain us in the physical universe. The exhibition will be on view at SPACE 151 from July 20 - September 7, 2017.
Like bees to a hive, Gingold and Durell explore and work tirelessly with paper, pushing the boundaries of physics with an expansive approach towards building organic structures. The resulting works unveil a complexity and beauty that mimics nature’s delicacy and abundance. Through her artistic process, Gingold creates dynamic interiors and exteriors that at once conceal and reveal the surface and structure of her pieces. In her suspended sculptural works, delicate handmade paper stretches and tears over intricately constructed armatures, suggesting human body parts in various states of genesis or decay. Working chiefly with tracing paper and wheat paste, Durell explores the nuances and intricacies of the material and its visual capacity for transformation. By way of layering and patterns, predominant motifs emerge as her work recalls the infinite organic fabrics that make up the natural world, from the ethereal and cosmic to microcosmic constructions.
About Mary Button Durell
Mary Button Durell is a San Francisco-based artist who works primarily with paper and wheat paste. Mary’s work is medium-centric and process-oriented, allowing for unique shapes and forms to emerge out of a temporal engagement with her materials. For more than 20 years, Mary has explored the nuances and intricacies of paper and light and continues to experiment with her medium and its visual capacity for transformation. In her most current work, Mary has introduced color in various formats from paint to acetate. Working with limited materials in the pursuit of the properties of light and translucency, predominant motifs emerge in the shape of biomorphic forms, layering and patterns that recall the infinite organic fabrics that make up the natural world—from the ethereal and cosmic (constellations, galaxies, asteroids) to the microcosmic (cellular fibers, molecular structures). In this way, Mary’s art practice aims to reconfigure the complexity of the universe into simple materials.
About Vanesa Gingold
Vanesa Gingold’s works in painting, drawing, and sculpture create dynamic interiors and exteriors, an interplay of concealing and revealing, of surface and structure. In her sculptural works, delicate handmade paper stretches and tears over intricately constructed armatures. Suspended woven forms suggest bodies, or parts of bodies in states of genesis or decay. In paintings, translucent planes of watercolor and oil layer over each other, colorful shapes suggesting vintage patterned fabric or wallpaper, but also fragmented insect and human forms. Intricate ink drawings similarly convey portraits in fragments, delicate illustrations cluster in lumped amalgamations or explode across knotted grids. In all these works the body and self are permeable and constantly under construction, always shifting, always becoming. Like a knotted string, or a rubber band around the wrist, there is a searching to imbue these works with a kind of tactile memory, something felt but only half-told.
About SPACE 151
SPACE 151 is an art gallery and event space that is dedicated to the experiential qualities of space. Located in Potrero Hill, the gallery showcases emerging artists, designers and performers who are creating and making compelling work in the Bay Area and beyond. The brainchild of Levy Art + Architecture, SPACE 151 blurs boundaries and celebrates interactive, immersive and spatial works. The gallery is burgeoning into a creative conduit where art and architecture blend into a place of connectivity, collaboration, connection, and happenstance.
