Seamless Gestures
14 August – 1 September 2014, NANA Gallery.
14 August – 1 September 2014, NANA Gallery.
An
exhibition of drawings by Skye Jacobson.
Haunted by the mysterious figures of strangers parading up and down the streets of Berlin earlier this year, Skye continues her exploration here in Newcastle recalling and depicting people and faces from memory.
Tuning
into the social dialogue of gestures and movement in street scenes through
abstract and linear suggestion, Skye portrays spontaneous and quirky
expressions of passers by captured in fleeting moments of time.
Greatly
inspired by German and Austrian Expressionism, Kirchner’s street scenes come to
mind:
“It seems as
though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into
the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a
coherent painterly form”.
* Source of his artist quotes on painting art, Brücke / Bridge and street scenes, Berlin: letter to K.E. Osthaus, 23 December 1917; as quoted in “Kirchner and the berlin street”’, ed. Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, 2008, p. 36.
* Source of his artist quotes on painting art, Brücke / Bridge and street scenes, Berlin: letter to K.E. Osthaus, 23 December 1917; as quoted in “Kirchner and the berlin street”’, ed. Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, 2008, p. 36.
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