variable widths x 30 inches | watercolor, tape on cut paper with custom painted wood frames | 2005 | 11½, curated by Susan Joyce | OVERTONES | Los Angeles
Primavera Conduit was part of 11½, my debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The title is a string-theory nod — going a step beyond eleven, where physicists proposed that subatomic particles might not be particles at all, but tiny vibrating strings.
Drawing by hand with a knife, spontaneously without lines, the contours come from memory and subconscious. The walls of the gallery were painted rich, luscious colors. The images relate to nature and at the same time cross into the supernatural. The gallery is transformed dramatically — spatial depth created with silhouettes and cast shadows from suspended cutout drawings, taking the viewer to an ulterior space, a place that provides an altered state experience.
At the time I lived and worked in San Francisco and was the affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. Recent projects from that period included SFMOMA’s 10th Anniversary, set design for the collaborative multimedia performance Extraordinary Forest, and a Spark series television program (By Hand, on KQED). The exhibition was curated by Susan Joyce at OVERTONES, a Los Angeles art venue supporting emerging artists, international collaboration, and social responsibility.