Design

Mary Corse a survey in industrial material

22/03/2022
https://www.itintandem.com/en/design-en/mary-corse-a-survey-in-industrial-material/

Have you already heard about artist Mary Corse?

The artist Mary Corse investigates materiality, abstraction, and perception through the subtly gestural and precisely geometric paintings that she has made over her fifty-year career.

Her first exhibition in Asia will be present by Pace Gallery in march 2019.

Left. Mary Corse in her downtown studio, 1966. Courtesy of the artist, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, New York and Lisson, London.
Right. Mary Corse, Untitled (Space + Electric Light), 1968. Photo by Philipp Scholz Rittermann. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Over the last five decades, Corse’s practice has investigated perception, properties of light and ideas of abstraction—all through an innovative approach to the medium of painting, in which light serves as both the subject and object of art. For Corse’s first exhibition in Asia, Pace will exhibit a selection of eight new paintings by the artist, which continue her use of glass microspheres and a limited palette of white, black, and red acrylic paint to create simple geometric configurations, giving structure to the luminescent internal space of her works.

Where: Hong Kong, Pace’s gallery in the H Queen’s building

12/F, H Queen’s 
80 Queen’s Road Central
中環皇后大道中80號
H Queen’s 12樓

When: March 26 – May 11, 2019

More about the artist:

Mary Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, California) investigates materiality, abstraction, and perception through the subtly gestural and precisely geometric paintings that she has made over her fifty-year career. Earning a BFA in 1968 from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, Corse developed her initial work during the emergence of the Light and Space movement in Southern California. Throughout the 1960s, she experimented with unconventional media and supports, producing shaped canvases, works with plexiglass, and illuminated boxes. In 1968, Corse discovered glass microspheres, an industrial material used in street signs and dividing lines on highways. Combining these tiny refractive beads with acrylic paint, she creates paintings that appear to radiate light from within and produce shifts in appearance contingent on their surroundings and the viewer’s position. Corse’s art emphasizes the abstract nature of human perception, expanding beyond the visual to include subtleties of feeling and awareness.

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