Miniaturenausstellung SMALL is the new big
Joan Grubin
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Detritus #18, acrylic on pressed wood, 7.5 cm x 9 cm, 2016
Detritus #29, acrylic on pressed wood, 8 cm x 10 cm, 2017
Detritus #47, acrylic on pressed wood, 8 cm x 10 cm, 2022
Detritus #55, acrylic on pressed wood, 8 cm x 10 cm, 2022
Detritus #58, acrylic on pressed wood, 7.5 cm x 9 cm, 2016
»THE DETRITUS SERIES is an ongoing project of very small works – technically called marquetry – made out of fragments cut from the thin sheets of pressed wood material covering my work table tops. Over the course of the past 16 years of applying paint to paper for my paper constructions and installations, this protective material accumulated layer upon layer of stray accidental brushstrokes, spills, and random marks. These tiny “paintings” came about from the cannibalizing and repurposing of this found material. My one rule, which I mostly follow, is that I add no new marks.«
Joan Grubin is based both in rural upstate New York and New York City. Her work, primarily in paper, has been shown in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally – in galleries, universities and community colleges, non-profit spaces, and museums, including the New York Public Library, the Alelier Alé in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and the LATUVU art space in the south of France. She was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2008, and has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, MASS MoCA, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Grubin occasionally publishes articles on art, and has curated exhibitions in New York City, northern California, and Albany, New York.
Kontakt:
Mail: jgrubin@grubin.com