Varda Caivano: The Density of the Actions
@ The Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 4th Floor, Chicago IL
Opening Sunday, February 22nd, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Sunday, April 19th
Each of London-based artist Varda Caivano’s canvases represents an inquiry into the practice of painting, performed over time. Layers of paint are applied, then rubbed, scratched, and reworked to create compositions that recall both the physicality of Abstract Expressionism and the mysticism of Redon. Self-described as an “old-fashioned painter,” Caivano’s process is intuitive, playful, and open-ended.
For this Renaissance Society exhibition, Caivano and Øvstebø have assembled a group of the artist’s recent works that incorporate drawing more directly into the paintings, representing a new direction in her practice. With a muted palette and sparer markings, their tone is lighter, more suggestive of an elusive narrative than vivid emotion.
Varda Caivano (born 1971, Argentina) lives and works in London, where she received an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2013 and 2009), Victoria Miro Gallery, London (2011), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), and Kunstverein Freiburg (2006). Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions such as The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2013), Artists’ Artists, CentrePasquArt, Biel Switzerland (2013), and Gwangju Biennial, Korea (2012). Caivano was the recipient of the Abbey Award from the British School at Rome in 2011, and was nominated for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2011.
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