Lynne Golob Gelfman
Trued Surface
Dimensions Variable
100 NE 11th Street, Miami
January 11 – February 23, 2014
Trued Surface brought together ten paintings at Dimensions Variable, the artist-run space in downtown Miami, setting four new canvases from the thru series beside a 1978 canvas and five small acrylics on paper from 1980. In the thru paintings Gelfman worked from the back of the canvas to the front and back again, pushing paint through the weave so that the cloth itself becomes the grid, a method rooted in her long interest in textiles and in work she began in the 1970s.
The triangle runs through all ten works, from the small 1980 papers to the 2014 canvas, so the exhibition read as a single argument made across thirty-five years. The critic Alana Shilling wrote an essay for the exhibition, and a book, trued surface, was issued alongside it.
Works in the exhibition
The four thru canvases of 2013–2014 and thru gold 2 (1978). The full list of ten works, including five small acrylics on paper from 1980, is below. Click an image to see it larger.
Checklist
As hung, clockwise from the front door:
1. tri/brown/blue, 1980, acrylic on paper, 8 1/4 x 14 in.
2. tri/blue/purple, 1980, acrylic on paper, 8 1/4 x 14 in.
3. tri/blue/brown, 1980, acrylic on paper, 9 x 7 1/2 in.
4. tri/pink, 1980, acrylic on paper, 8 1/2 x 9 in.
5. tri/blue/red, 1980, acrylic on paper, 7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
6. thru 2, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 54 x 104 in.
7. thru 1, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
8. thru 3, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
9. thru 4, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
10. thru gold 2, 1978, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in.
Essay by Alana Shilling. Exhibition at Dimensions Variable, Miami. Announcement card and list of works from the Lynne Golob Gelfman estate archive.
Announcement card
