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Surfin’Bird
Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers.
16 × 12 in | 40,6 × 30,5 cm
Availability
This painting is available for purchase online on Artsy and for in-person viewing in New York via Garvey | Simon Gallery.
Details
The background
shows random small blue, red, and yellow dots on raw cream canvas.
The fold
The double-sided painting coming over it is on one side made of a solid electric blue with red and white shapes transferred over it. Random yellow dots the blue and red and blue ones come over the white. The other side presents shades of orange that blend with the bleeding blue.
The cut
Surfin’bird is an abstract painting cutout that bursts with color and energy. The artwork features a vibrant blue background against which a group of colorful figures stand in a seemingly joyful pose.
Featured in
GALLERY EXHIBITION
Julien Gardair and Melanie Vote
20 March – 4 May 2024
DFN Project, New York
DFN Project, New York
The exhibition offers an intimate exploration of works by artists Julien Gardair and Melanie Vote, who beyond their individual artistic pursuits, share a bond as a married couple.
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The painting cutout series combines the materiality of Support/Surfaces with the exuberance of Pattern and Decoration while sharing the radical constraints of Minimal Art.
The works are ambiguous and simultaneously political statements, bold paintings, decorative ornamentations, textile, and craft works.
They are tactile and abstract while including sometimes represented subjects.
A double-sided painting is folded, cut, unfolded twice, then stitched to another.
The folds expose what lies behind them. The stitches are a visible and healing way to assemble the parts, inviting the possibility of restoring the painting to its original state.
The series explores the interaction of these surfaces. It creates a trustworthy space where nothing gets discarded or forgotten.
By utilizing every part, I aim to make more with less and reconcile the apparent contradictions between positive and negative shapes, figuration and abstraction, freedom and constraints, one and another, past, present, and future.
The cuts follow a sustainable system that generates zero waste in a continuous piece.