Opened Ground: Claudia Carr’s Abstract Vision
London gallery Jessica Carlisle announced the opening of Opened Ground a showcase of new works by Claudia Carr. An artist characterised by her ambiguous style of work, Carr’s pieces border on abstraction. For her latest exhibition Carr worked from a restricted palette of black, white and yellow hues as part of exploring the tensions of working within such parameters. The resulting pieces focus on the interaction of colours, rather than colour itself.
Carr is preoccupied with the act of looking at the same thing for hours on end, which she believes is a uniquely intense relationship between the observer and the observed. The vagaries of perception are as much her subject as the objects themselves. “The relationship between the observed object and its observer (the gaze) intrigues and compels me. I’m convinced an object knows, and responds to, being looked at (especially the kind of intense looking that happens over months of painting something),” Carr stated.
The show’s title Opened Ground is Carr’s recognition of the resonance she finds in Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Her work displays a deep connection with the landscape, both as physical experience and metaphorical motif. Sitting somewhere between animate and inanimate, the otherworldliness of the suspended and weightless forms is heightened by manipulations of scale. We are not sure if we are in or above ground, looking through air and water.
Opened Ground
4 Nov – 3 Dec 2016
Jessica Carlisle
4 Mandeville Place,
London, W1U 2BF
