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Painting, Gouache on Recycled Chipboard
Size: 18 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in
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This piece is from a series painted while I was the artist-in-residence at Thread, an artist residency in the small, rural village of Sinthian, located in Senegal, West Africa, supported by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. The Albers Foundation is a nonprofit organization to further "the revelation and evocation of vision through art." The gauche paintings I created reflect the patterns and colors found in the women's clothing in the village. I originally planned to be working with a desaturated, almost neutral palette. But when I saw the bright, patterned clothes juxtaposed against the dusty, neutral backdrop of West Africa, I was compelled to record it. A surprising plethora of patterns and textures surrounded me during my month-long residency. I collect sketchbooks or pads of paper my students will often leave behind when the course concludes. I'm attracted to the earthy color of the chipboard, the solidity of its form, and the fact that its function is to support something deemed more valuable. My process for creating the work is this: a graphite grid is drawn on the chipboard, and the rectangles in between the graphite lines are filled with gouache. I intentionally leave the binding edge on the chipboard. I find beauty in the repetition, rhythm, and precision of the small rectangles.
Original Created:2022
Subjects:Geometric
Materials:Recycled Chipboard
Mediums:GouacheGraphiteMatte Varnish
Painting:Gouache on Recycled Chipboard
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Maureen Nollette currently lives and works in Michigan (USA). Nollette’s work investigates unjust social constructs in a broad sense. The artist’s work has been included in exhibitions across the United States and China. In addition, her work is collected by prominent private and public collections including Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit, MI); Yves St. Laurent (New York, NY); MGM Mirage Hotel (Las Vegas, NV); j. jill Group (Tilton, NH); and Gerald R. Ford International Airport (Grand Rapids, MI). Nollette’s practice employs mundane objects to create drawings, paintings, and relief sculptures. She explores this arena by engaging in labor-intensive tracing, stitching, pinning, and painting; sometimes massing seemingly frivolous materials for careful and intimate consideration. The grid, a precise and consistent armature representing societal infrastructure, contrasts the imperfection of Nollette’s slow, deliberate, rhythmic methods. The traced forms from flattened cardboard boxes saved after the important contents they housed are gone signify a support system for items worthy of protection or containment, asking where society places value. This critique via pattern, shape, color, and scale rejects the temptation to support our idea of what may be labeled merely ornamentation. Abstracted references to topography, textiles, and tiling assume key signifiers of underpinning labor, work frequently executed by overlooked and undervalued individuals. Nollette hopes to reveal our biased social infrastructure, permitting change.
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