SOLO EXHIBITIONA Few of My Favorite Things
Artinformal
11 January — 8 February 2020
In A Few of My Favorite Things , Nicole Tee brings attention to the objects she brings to her spheres of practice. It is one of continued engagement with material excess, of books, textiles, flora, images, and their formal attributes of pattern, texture and colors. At the same time, it marks an internal questioning of the peculiarities and particularities of her own process. Certain predilections for material and form, nuanced shifts in perspective and attitude towards artistic creation, serve as fundamen tal points to her visual inquiries.
Here textiles are rendered flat, as swatch or collage, referencing the visual vocabulary of mood boards. One can cut, crop, and paste. But one also gathers and collects, as extant materials serve as spring board for ne w trajectories. In this bringing together of influences and possibilities, prescriptive hierarchies regarding the temporal are disassembled. The works are indicative of an in-between positionality that Tee constantly inhabits, one marked by the pervasivene ss of the present, as every completed work opens the door for a new one.
Based loosely on past projects, her objects opt for reiteration instead of an imposed progression. Tee eschews the notions of the artwork as indicator of artistic evolution or advan cement. This circularity in process renders tension between being and becoming, conceiving and doing (and further re-doing). In this case, reiteration serves to reinforce but it does not ossify, marked as it is by continuous exploration between and through materials and processes.
— JC Rosette
Before Wildflowers - Dried flowers on canvas and cotton textile woven by artist - 3 x 2 feet (each) (diptych) - 2018-2019 Swatch Book - Textile swatches on canvas, hand bound by artist - 10 x 12 x 3 inches (28 pages) - 2019
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