Crystal Palace
Artist Statement
Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace is the culmination of a three month artist residency program with Local Language Art, Design, Fabrication studio and Exhibition Space based in Oakland, CA in 2019.
This body of works, created in a mix of digital and painting techniques, is an investigation into our relationship to objects, landscape, and the act of looking. The viewer is presented with window-like displays of silhouetted still-life objects camouflaged into an idyllic landscape. The relationship between foreground and background is obscured in the imagery: flatness and illusionistic space slip in and out of focus as one grapples with the distinction between inside and outside, and as distance and proximity vie for position and prominence.
Crystal Palace exhibits two distinct series of artworks. One series consists of printing and painting on linen, introducing digital elements to recent works by the artist. The other series utilizes CNC-cut aluminum components arranged to bring the aluminum shapes and printed forms of the paintings into shallow relief. Both series blur the lines between the foreground and background, and the works conjure themes of displacement and reflection on nature while simultaneously exploring the tension between digital and analogue.