ARON PACKER GALLERY |
Nancy Mladenoff |
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| CURRENT EXHIBITION |
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| January 10 - February 8 |
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| Gallery One |
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| NANCY MLADENOFF |
| New Works |
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| Painting, photography, and wall treatment |
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Nancy Mladenoff's work explores the subject of the natural world.
Searching for new ways to create artwork about nature in order to make
it more relevant in a contemporary context, her visual interest examines
fungi and insects and the double edge of repulsion/attraction. This
follows from a long tradition of using insects and fungi for artistic
contemplation. Formal beauty and visual complexity are but two of the
reasons artists find them compelling. Mladenoff paints on contemporary upholstery fabrics and wallpaper using the texture and surface quality as a means of organically integrating painting into the idea of contemporary spaces. She employs silhouettes as a means of universalizing the visual image, helping enhance the overall experience of the work, and providing readability. Using computer software to manipulate her original drawings she expands her vocabulary by involving contemporary design issues, thereby creating new challenges for the work. In her abstract paintings, distorted images of insects and mushrooms co-mingle with distorted objects from domestic and corporate life, connecting them to our contemporary time. Forms morph through space in seemingly endless improvisation. Mladenoff also makes nature part of the artwork itself. For a project in Darmstadt, Germany, the artist painted on mushrooms both as ephemeral works and as a performance for a live audience. The mushrooms have been digitally documented as the artwork, thus having nature and culture collide, through the act of painting on the fungi, as they exist in the natural environment. |
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| Aron Packer Gallery |
| 118 N. Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607 |
| p (312) 226-8984, f (312) 226-8985 |
| aronpacker@earthlink.net |