As Symbol & Concept
As Symbol & Concept grapples with the dehiscence of language and semiotics when used as formal tools. This series, conceived in response to a seminar held by Abstract Expressionist Ad Reinhardt in 1967, titled Black as Symbol and Concept, examines the collapse of shared meaning and narratives through their syntactical and material deconstruction.
Here, limitation becomes amplification. A restrained palette of monochromatic black materials heightens the subtle distinctions of charcoal, graphite, and oil-based mediums, sharpening their opacities, textures, and specular reflections, and exposing how fraught our relationship is to the inexorable field of signification.
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