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Transcendent Geometries 〰️ Opening Reception with the artists: Ato Ribeiro &
Saturday, March 2, 2024
1:00 - 3:00pm
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In a time dominated by machine algorithms, a return to patterns made by human hands and touched by human bodies can produce transcendent geometries, reminding us of our origins as embodied and sensuous beings. Ato Ribeiro, Carrie Marill, and Andy Burgess work in diverse media, yet each artist employs pattern as an instrument of exquisite narrative and intimate intention. Working within formal geometrical guidelines that often resemble the composition of a quilt – an object used both to warm people and communicate information – Ribeiro, Marill, and Burgess combine tactile materials, mathematical constraints, and the universal need for expression to create intimate graphic explorations in wood, acrylic on linen, and textile collage. Their recent works will be exhibited in a group show at Lisa Sette Gallery from March 2 – May 25, 2024. 〰️ The artist Carrie Marill speaks of her “love for combining worlds,” and her research and practice examining pattern, color, and form in both folk and fine art result in works that are luminously personal and formally precise. Marill lists the contrasts that inspire her, from “craft and architecture, masculine and feminine, beauty and utility” to “hard and soft, structure and freeform, handwork and mechanization.” In Marill’s recent works, inspired by her study of European modernist architects and folk quilts, the artist delineates these human contrasts in geometrical explorations. The personal characteristics of built spaces and objects are tangible in these works: the simple physique of a chair, the human spaces around which a building is built, the soft precision of a quilt made from textile remnants already worn close for a lifetime. “I have been looking at architecture and how the patterns found in modern/minimalist architecture utilize similar patterns as found in quilt making. Architecture can create light, airy space out of steel, metal and concrete. Could quilts create a similar effect? What if a building were a quilt? I want to capture that in a painting.” 〰️

I love making patterns :)

🌙 Still processing my time with and the crew - 📸