Lisa Sigal | Interrupted Shadow
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Quint Gallery is proud to present Lisa Sigal: Interrupted Shadow at ONE this October. Sigal’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, socially engaged projects, curating and public art, often employing a blend of traditional art media and architectural or building material as a foundation. In her Interrupted Shadow series, Sigal layers and hangs painted mesh window screens removed from their framing devices. Fixing a gaze upon the surface is complicated by a moiré of viscous patterns and rendered apertures, one grid interfering with another as if in a pixelated scramble– a low-tech metaphor for the omnipresence of digital screens that broadcast versions of reality. Through loops of mesh, Sigal explores the mutability of perception as colors and forms oscillate between porous layers.
The paintings in this series evolved out of Sigal’s daily swimming practice. In the spring of 2020, Sigal spent sheltered pandemic months in La Jolla swimming distance at the Shores, above an underwater submarine canyon which slopes into an abyssal plain hundreds of feet below sea level. This rush of adrenaline and encountering the edge of a void imbued a disembodied focus on breath, rhythm, and form. Sigal wrote regularly of her underwater observations and notes on perception to make sense of what she was seeing and feeling. Along the perimeter of this canyon, she became acutely attuned to the marine ecosystem, scanning its colors and shapes and how sunlight refracts and dissipates at depth. These physical efforts of a body floating and remaining in perpetual motion manifested in the abstracted voids and prisms that appear in this body of work.
Lisa Sigal has exhibited throughout the United States, in Asia and Europe over the last twenty years. Highlights include The Whitney Museum Biennial 2008, The New Museum, MoMa/PS1 Museum, The Sculpture Center, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Albright Knox, the Brooklyn Museum, Prospect .3 International Biennial in New Orleans, the DeCordova Museum in Boston, the Essl Museum in Vienna, LAXART space in Los Angeles, Samson Projects in Boston, The Mattress Factory and the Anyang Public Art Project, Korea among other venues. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Sigal received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1985, attended the Skowhegan School of Art in 1986, and earned her MFA in painting from Yale University School of Art in 1985. Lisa Sigal lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Photo: Lile Kvantaliani
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