CHROMA
6
July – 29 July, Blankspace, Manchester
Preview
5 July 6-9pm
Artist
Talk 18 July 6.30pm
Free
Entry
Systems of ordering, classification and
coding are applied in the development and generation of Liz West’s work in her
first major solo exhibition, Chroma at Blankspace, Manchester.
“I establish boundaries which determine both what is collected and where it is
collected from. Accumulating only purely coloured objects, I consider the
psychological influence of colour and it’s affect and sensory impact on the viewed”.
West invokes the monumental, whilst utilising commonplace objects found and
collected from the world around her.
West will be showing three new, site-specific works at
BLANKSPACE gallery, opening to the public on 6 July. The work embodies her
ongoing research and interest in colour theory, light and the physical
construction of real and illusory space. “I am interested in the methodologies
within order and collections found in the home environment, museums, shops and
in library archives. Everyone has their own personal formula for classification
and arrangement of these objects”.
West is interested in the visual collision of densely
massed objects and also in more formal collections and arrangements of objects
found in shops, markets and museums. Orange Chamber is a
illusive landscape of detritus giving the impression of a unbounded field of
intensely coloured and richly saturated forms. West’s work immerses the viewer
and creates a scenic space that is both evocative and magical allowing the
viewer to form personal experiences and moments where time stands still.
“West’s work pursues a logic and in doing so brings some
of the mad logic of commercialism, how it arranges the world into relief. The
works find and offer a poetic and abstract beauty in only apparently sterile
environments.”
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Through half remembered childhood memories or
emotional association, colour, light and form can dramatically alter our
perception and reality. Whether it is to be discovered or hidden within the
space and objects or dissecting through the fabric of the building, Liz West’s
work creates juxtaposition between what is real and blurred palpability.
Chroma is
a culmination of West’s interests and ideas over a five-year period during
which she has investigated and tested sculptural and spatial collections of
manufactured and found colour to produce work in a range of media.
Chroma is
curated by Blank Media Collective and is kindly supported by Arts Council
England, ASK Developments, Sandbar and Full Circle Arts. Admission to the
exhibition will be free. Accompanying the exhibition will be a limited edition
exhibition catalogue.
