About The Work
Eleanor Aldrich’s paper and caulking drawings are about the tension between physicality and image. The photographic qualities of the found images used for transfer contrast with the gestural application and thick body of the medium.
"My work is textural and alchemical; I match materials – often industrial sealants – and techniques to the subject matter they look like, thereby approaching verisimilitude without realistic rendering. I work with a kind of mimetic literalism that embodies the subject but serves pictorial conventions as well, posing questions about physicality as the standard of reality. I attribute my appreciation of mystery and the possibility of transformation in my work to my Catholic upbringing, in which materials were transformed and images held power over life."
In this exhibition, Aldrich and Montgomery in their respective ways grappled with modernism as an aesthetic and cultural force. One that not only has affected their grandmother's generation but one that has current ramifications for them as female artists. The grid has a physical and metaphorical impact for those forced into and through it, and the aesthetic artifacts and influences of the era remain to remind us of the boxes within the grid and how to fit into them.
Courtesy of Channel to Channel
About Eleanor Aldrich
Enamel, Fabric, Gel Pen, Oil, wallpaper on canvas
59.00 x 72.00 in
149.9 x 182.9 cm
Signed by artist
About The Work
Eleanor Aldrich’s paper and caulking drawings are about the tension between physicality and image. The photographic qualities of the found images used for transfer contrast with the gestural application and thick body of the medium.
"My work is textural and alchemical; I match materials – often industrial sealants – and techniques to the subject matter they look like, thereby approaching verisimilitude without realistic rendering. I work with a kind of mimetic literalism that embodies the subject but serves pictorial conventions as well, posing questions about physicality as the standard of reality. I attribute my appreciation of mystery and the possibility of transformation in my work to my Catholic upbringing, in which materials were transformed and images held power over life."
In this exhibition, Aldrich and Montgomery in their respective ways grappled with modernism as an aesthetic and cultural force. One that not only has affected their grandmother's generation but one that has current ramifications for them as female artists. The grid has a physical and metaphorical impact for those forced into and through it, and the aesthetic artifacts and influences of the era remain to remind us of the boxes within the grid and how to fit into them.
Courtesy of Channel to Channel
About Eleanor Aldrich
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