aoife collins
tickling the ivories
when?
6th january - 4th february, 2011
where?
flashpoint, 916 g street nw, wdc 20001
metro: metro center, gallery place / chinatown - map
about the show:
the title of the exhibition makes reference to a manipulation of, or a playing with, materials. it also considers, with colour, humor and a bit of irony – the idea of art as decoration. in all i want is to covet you, collins takes the cube – a stark and minimalist geometric shape and adorns it with delicate necklace of silk and freshwater pearls to create an ambiguous construction. this piece represents a certain dualism, monolithic but also fragile – it denotes the contrast in associated meanings of the different materials. another work, inherit the window, is a large wall-based installation of two images repeated in an endless cycle of a propagation of pattern, where background and foreground are blurred and images converge.
about the artist:
aoife collins received a ba from the national college of art and design, dublin, followed by an ma from chelsea college of art and design, london. selected residencies include location one, new york; skowhegan, usa, and scottish sculpture workshop, scotland. selected exhibitions include there is no release my darling, the process room at the irish museum of modern art, dublin; with words like smoke, chelsea space, london; altered sequence, e:vent, london; lost in your eyes, form content, london; wet eye, location one, new york; culture clash, working rooms, london; comfort burn, artspace, buffalo; phoenix park, kerlin gallery, dublin; ev+a, limerick; prelapsarian/here-and-now/postlapsarian, goethe institute, dublin; perspective, ormeau baths gallery, belfast, and permaculture, project gallery, dublin.
opening night reception: 6 january, 6-8pm. artist talk: 12 january, noon. 