Check out the exhibition at London’s White Cube: Virginia Overton

✨Virginia Overton: Paintings The title references Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1912 Cubist painting – beyond the loose formal similarity between the two works – it points to Overton’s assertion that this is a painting exhibition. ❤️American artist Virginia Overton’s practice involves recycling and reusing materials, utilising their inherent properties to reveal the ‘natural push and pull’ within them. Through physical intervention, Overton interacts with objects and articulates their ‘materiality’; often cutting, stacking, hanging, bending, looping, balancing, wedging, or hammering them to form intuitive responses to the chosen spatial environment. For the artist, discarded or abandoned items offer endless possibilities. 🎉The exhibition, centred on the theme of ‘painting’, features a series of low-relief wall works constructed from industrial waste collected by Overton. By deconstructing and refining irregular polygonal components and reconfiguring them as new works that occupy canvas space and form, she integrates the ‘language of painting’ into her practice while respecting sculpture as its foundation. 💭Using an intuitive approach, bright yellow typography or grey galvanised steel fragments are stacked to create a sense of depth on the surface of the artworks. These pieces utilise the irregular geometric shapes and unmodulated colour planes of the materials, drawing on formal inquiries of geometric abstraction to highlight the harmony between surface and depth, flatness and dimensionality. ❤️At the same time, they draw our attention to the traces of weathering the materials have undergone over time, with worn cream yellow and chalk silver surfaces revealing numerous accumulated dents, fragments, and scratches. The use of hard and soft materials not only highlights different types of sites – from industrial to domestic – but also underscores the formal characteristics of materials in each setting. 💕I find this to be a very interesting industrial-style fine art piece; I really appreciate her use of materials and the craft involved. For example, the contrast between industrial recycled metal and soft textiles, the different angles of flat and three-dimensional presentation, stacking, covering, sewing, etc. Searching for the artist’s other works also reveals more minimalist but highly conceptual creations. ✨Sometimes you don’t need to deeply understand and comprehend the art, but it will give you an intuitive impact beyond your summary. I had such a feeling when I walked out of the gallery and saw the street view; I felt a shock and developed some of my own cognition of the work, which also completes the communication that art requires. Attached is a picture of a building under construction on the main street. Date: 17 Jan - 22 Feb Free Admission #ContemporaryArtCentre #ArtistShare #PortfolioInspiration #IndustrialDesign #art #LondonArtExhibition #LondonExhibitions #LondonLife #UAL #MyArtExhibitionDiary