JENNIFER STILLWELL – NEW WORK
2016-09-05In order to create new work Jennifer Stillwell finds an original process. Her material processes are physically amplified into playful, formal and critical responses to a site and its context. Concepts of the gallery space, the industrial space, the domestic space, the landscape and the body collide in her forms. Time, gravity and material tendencies become vehicles of expression with forms set in suspended animation. In her recent pieces, meaning and scale shifts with changes in perspective. Art historical references are embraced but at the same time deconstructed through her seemingly naïve use of everyday items. Within her forms one recognizes the familiarity of what they’re seeing while also being given the opportunity to redefine the embedded constructs.
For her new solo exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery, Jennifer Stillwell appropriates the classic prank of a bucket of liquid balanced on top of a door and combines it with the domino effect in order to create a new series of painterly sculptures. With the resulting spilled forms one has the opportunity to rewind back and forth through the process in order to imagine their original static state and how they may have been activated. The speed of the objects tipping over can be imagined but the character of the materials allows one to slow the image down.
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2016
Pari Nadimi Gallery
254 Niagara Street
ON M6J 2L8
Toronto
Canada
