Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce
Like a Rare Morel, an
exhibition of graphite and metalpoint works on birch panel by Michelle Grabner.
This exhibition marks Grabner's return to domesticated geometric
pattern. Gingham, a plain-woven fabric where the
warp and weft
are aligned to form a
simple perpendicular crossing pattern is the basis of Grabner's recent
metalpoint panel works. Gold, silver, copper, and graphite are employed to
imitate the basic grid structure generated by gingham weave. The small scale of
these works, their minimal gestures, and their ever-changing metal patina
up-stage their common reference soliciting theoretical notions of time and
geometric abstraction. These simple works re-postulate the restlessness set
forth by the long-standing theoretical debates between the polemical conditions
of representation and non-representation, relative and non-relative, material
and immaterial, the measurable and the immeasurable.
Michelle Grabner's work is currently on view in A Shot in the
Dark at The Walker Art Center and Collaborating with Michelle Grabner
isn't as fun as you think it is at Gallery 16 in San Francisco.
She is a Professor and Department Chair of the Painting and Drawing at The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago and along with her husband Brad Killam
runs the artist-run exhibition spaces: The Suburban, Oak Park, IL and The Poor
Farm, Waupaca County WI. Grabner's work is included in the public collections of
the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MUDAM - Musée d’Art
Moderne, Luxemburg; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Washington DC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago.
