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I love the idea of being walked all over . . . But I’ve carefully saved your steps.
Making you walk and dance this way towards me but then I push you away towards yourself.
Greene Naftali is pleased to announce RAQUE FORD’s second solo show at the gallery, which reveals new facets of what one critic calls her “plexiglass poetry.” The exhibition features wall-mounted works in her signature sheets of bright acrylic, incised with snippets of text and Pop iconography (spiral symbols, hippie flowers). The works’ modular grids and space-age material recall the innovations of Minimal sculpture, when artists turned to plexi for its pristine hardness and sealed-in sheen. Yet Ford’s panels are lifted from her own custom dance floors and bear traces of that former use—sociability, proximity, and connection that lingers in the nicks and dings that mar the plastic.
That slick surface is also the working matrix for a new suite of…
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I love the idea of being walked all over . . . But I’ve carefully saved your steps.
Making you walk and dance this way towards me but then I push you away towards yourself.
Greene Naftali is pleased to announce RAQUE FORD’s second solo show at the gallery, which reveals new facets of what one critic calls her “plexiglass poetry.” The exhibition features wall-mounted works in her signature sheets of bright acrylic, incised with snippets of text and Pop iconography (spiral symbols, hippie flowers). The works’ modular grids and space-age material recall the innovations of Minimal sculpture, when artists turned to plexi for its pristine hardness and sealed-in sheen. Yet Ford’s panels are lifted from her own custom dance floors and bear traces of that former use—sociability, proximity, and connection that lingers in the nicks and dings that mar the plastic.
That slick surface is also the working matrix for a new suite of…
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