Carrie Gundersdorf Exhibition Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago presents an exhibition of work by Carrie Gundersdorf, open through August 7-29, 2010.
With an unyielding interest in the formal explorations and history of abstraction, Carrie Gundersdorf’s drawings and paintings reflect her interest in how line, form, color, and spatial compositions can be derived from other source materials, concerns similar to modernist artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Piet Mondrian.
Carrie Gundersdorf, Trails and space, yellow and red version, 2010. Courtesy of the artist
While her work is partially submerged in documentation and science, the observable mark-making and its subsequent imperfections gives the work a subjective human element and speak to a desire to draw Her work articulates light spectrums as well as the progress of stars and planets through abstract compositions consisting of bars of color against atmospheric backdrops, taken from reproductions of astronomical photographs in books. Gundersdorf says, “My drawings and paintings refer to astronomical images that are created by time-lapse photography, spectroscopes, and computer-enhanced photographs. I find these images in books and on the internet, and extract shapes, lines, colors, and patterns that serve as a starting point for compositional strategies.”
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