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Overduin & Co. is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Eliza Douglas. The exhibition is titled “Guggenheim” and features a group of new works from an ongoing series of paintings, each wrapped, as a gift, in a three-dimensional bow.
The paintings are installed upon mise-en-scène textile backdrops depicting the iconic Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition roughly simulates an imagined museum show. The fluid theatre-like scrims are draped over the gallery walls, layering images of the museum’s exterior façade and ramped interior spiral.
Douglas’s bow paintings illustrate found images of digitally constructed landscapes rendered in oil on canvas. A sculptural ribbon is wrapped around the support, each ribbon carrying a different motif that elaborates on or contrasts with the painting’s subject.
The bow is a symbol, and as much a part of the painting as...More
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Overduin & Co. is pleased to present a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Eliza Douglas. The exhibition is titled “Guggenheim” and features a group of new works from an ongoing series of paintings, each wrapped, as a gift, in a three-dimensional bow.
The paintings are installed upon mise-en-scène textile backdrops depicting the iconic Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition roughly simulates an imagined museum show. The fluid theatre-like scrims are draped over the gallery walls, layering images of the museum’s exterior façade and ramped interior spiral.
Douglas’s bow paintings illustrate found images of digitally constructed landscapes rendered in oil on canvas. A sculptural ribbon is wrapped around the support, each ribbon carrying a different motif that elaborates on or contrasts with the painting’s subject.
The bow is a symbol, and as much a part of the painting as...More
