"Perceptions: OCCCA New Member Exhibition"
2003-12-20 until 2004-01-11
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Santa Ana, CA, USA United States of America

From the middle of December the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art presents Perceptions: OCCCA New Member Exhibition. The exhibition features works by 9 artists living in Southern California. The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) OCCCA is an artist operated California non-profit corporation dedicated to the pursuit of professional excellence and freedom of expression in the arts.

Featured in this exhibitions are four recent works by Francoise Issaly.

For the artist's statement:

"Since 2000, my research proceeds through fragmentation. Each square is individually link to the others even if physically separated by a neutral space, the wall. The lines are then cut, not appearing as one. In dividing each piece in several parts, I create coincidences. Everything is happening in the encountering, correspondences, parts missing and the suggested spaces. The action of fragmenting gives another mysterious dimension ; what is happening in between the different parts? The eye is participating in the bursting of the piece. The art work becomes difficult to physically grasp. The whole, containing sometimes more emptiness than fullness, is questioning the physical identity of the art work as well as its limitations and its presence."  

Francoise Issaly
Petite configuration I
Acrylique sur papier et toile
5 carrés de 45 x 45 cm
2002

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