Exiled Lines
A solo exhibition by Andrea Medjesi-Jones
Date: 5 -12 November 2009
Time: 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday
Venue: Ruskin Gallery
Private View: Wednesday 4 November, 17.00
Andrea Medjesi-Jones' paintings and drawings are reliant on the materiality and the processes of its making. Their non-representational nature establishes simultaneously a language of paint that is neither abstract nor figurative but appropriate and specific to the event of its making. This approach sees the image develop as a thought process that is temporal and intuitive, surpassing the predetermined visual narratives or categorizations that could limit the work's potential.
For her solo show at Ruskin Gallery, Andrea Medjesi-Jones created scroll like drawings that traverse between gestures and movements, tracking the genealogy of line that is both conflicting and concordant. Through layers of ink and squiggles of ball pen, the system that emerges is close to a mental landscape of memories and thoughts with its focus re-locating depending on where you are stood to look at it. Details become strategies and anchoring points to hold the eye still, suggesting the inconstancy of perception and the inevitable shift of pace.
The positive and negative spaces are replicated again and again. By concealing the surface of the paper with the torn out pieces from old drawings and painting over it, Medjesi-Jones distances the gestures away from the surface, preserving the emptiness of action where ink and water should hold. Such actions dislocate the primacy of drawing, placing it in a domain of image, with its masked out areas acting like shadows of the forgotten passages of time.
Please click images to enlarge.
Date: 5 -12 November 2009
Time: 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday
Venue: Ruskin Gallery
Private View: Wednesday 4 November, 17.00
Andrea Medjesi-Jones' paintings and drawings are reliant on the materiality and the processes of its making. Their non-representational nature establishes simultaneously a language of paint that is neither abstract nor figurative but appropriate and specific to the event of its making. This approach sees the image develop as a thought process that is temporal and intuitive, surpassing the predetermined visual narratives or categorizations that could limit the work's potential.
For her solo show at Ruskin Gallery, Andrea Medjesi-Jones created scroll like drawings that traverse between gestures and movements, tracking the genealogy of line that is both conflicting and concordant. Through layers of ink and squiggles of ball pen, the system that emerges is close to a mental landscape of memories and thoughts with its focus re-locating depending on where you are stood to look at it. Details become strategies and anchoring points to hold the eye still, suggesting the inconstancy of perception and the inevitable shift of pace.
The positive and negative spaces are replicated again and again. By concealing the surface of the paper with the torn out pieces from old drawings and painting over it, Medjesi-Jones distances the gestures away from the surface, preserving the emptiness of action where ink and water should hold. Such actions dislocate the primacy of drawing, placing it in a domain of image, with its masked out areas acting like shadows of the forgotten passages of time.
Please click images to enlarge.
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