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Rosalind Tallmadge
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Nebulous and spectral, the work of Rosalind Tallmadge is optically elusive, ever-shifting in her shimmering blend of alchemy. Possessing an active and seducing luminosity, the paintings act as gilded receptors harnessing light and their environment. These are both outward and inward works. They take one in like floating celestial bodies of a boundless atmosphere, while offering a deep dose of introspective immersion, a meditative space where the complexities of the works are unveiled over time.
Behind the lure of the sparkle, Tallmadge renegotiates the bodily and imaginative implications of glitter and sequins, continuing her examination of the politics of beauty and surface. The artist begins each work on reversible sequin fabric, feminizing the surface while setting the topographies onto which she accumulates layers of decorative materials, carrying associations of the beauty industry, costume, and inherently, the feminine body. The work is then re-contextualized by the language of Formalism, particularly that of monochrome painting, historically and drastically a male-dominant field.
Rosalind Tallmadge is a multi-media artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her most recent exhibition was a two-person exhibition titled The Supernal Plane at Carvalho Park. Her solo shows have included Embodied Earth (2019) at David Klein in Detroit, Deep Time (2018) …
Nebulous and spectral, the work of Rosalind Tallmadge is optically elusive, ever-shifting in her shimmering blend of alchemy. Possessing an active and seducing luminosity, the paintings act as gilded receptors harnessing light and their environment. These are both outward and inward works. They take one in like floating celestial bodies of a boundless atmosphere, while offering a deep dose of introspective immersion, a meditative space where the complexities of the works are unveiled over time.
Behind the lure of the sparkle, Tallmadge renegotiates the bodily and imaginative implications of glitter and sequins, continuing her examination of the politics of beauty and surface. The artist begins each work on reversible sequin fabric, feminizing the surface while setting the topographies onto which she accumulates layers of decorative materials, carrying associations of the beauty industry, costume, and inherently, the feminine body. The work is then re-contextualized by the language of Formalism, particularly that of monochrome painting, historically and drastically a male-dominant field.
Rosalind Tallmadge is a multi-media artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her most recent exhibition was a two-person exhibition titled The Supernal Plane at Carvalho Park. Her solo shows have included Embodied Earth (2019) at David Klein in Detroit, Deep Time (2018) at Marquee Projects in New York, and Hyper Opulence (2018) at Real Estate in New York. In addition to regularly showing in solo and group exhibitions in Detroit and New York, Tallmadge has also shown in Miami, Seattle, and Cincinnati. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015, attended residencies at Yale Norfolk and OxBow, and received her BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from Indiana University.
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