Patricia Treib
@ GOLDEN
816 W Newport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Friday, September 3rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 16th
For her first solo show in Chicago, Patricia Treib will exhibit two corresponding bodies of work: intimate paintings on paper and large gestural paintings on canvas. Operating on different scales, both tie abstraction to a process of un-naming.
Originating as meditations on tangible “artifacts” such as a book of drawings viewed through a glass clock or the space between figures in a fresco reproduction, the presence of a subject is subverted by a shift of focus to peripheral and immaterial information. Through this displacement of attention, a new image is constructed out of instances of paradox, incongruity and fracture within a visual field. The paintings are formed out of repeated acts and erasures; removals become an essential part of the image itself. Each painting proposes an iteration of a transitory icon in flux.
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