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Kirsten Glass: EXPO Chicago, Booth #204

Past exhibition
7 - 10 April 2022
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Kirsten Glass Vesica, 2017 Oil paint, acrylic, sand and embroidery thread on canvas 260 x 173 cm | 102 3/8 x 68 1/8 in
Kirsten Glass
Vesica, 2017
Oil paint, acrylic, sand and embroidery thread on canvas
260 x 173 cm | 102 3/8 x 68 1/8 in

Karsten Schubert London exhibits at EXPO Chicago 2022 with a solo presentation of Northern Irish artist Kirsten Glass. To Glass, art is potentially a manifestation of a spiritual, magical process, whether or not artists realise it themselves. This marks the first time this important body of Glass's work will be exhibited. 

 

Kirsten Glass’s paintings grow and develop in a method she likens to a “slow-motion collage without a plan": stock silhouettes of women and their animal familiars are added, reworked and hidden. Each of Glass’s canvases is divided into distinct sections, visually emphasising the interruption of straightforward narrative with dreamlike logic. The rich black ground colour she favours, as seen in Kittens (2017), serves to hold an assembly of seemingly mismatched components in place within a dream world of creatures, esoteric symbols, sigils, sewn marks, everyday objects and abstract shapes.

 

Incised flowing lines and shapes, including the flowers of life pattern from sacred geometry, are scratched into the surface of her canvases, revealing under-layers of paint. These highly textured paintings incorporate thread, sand and glitter. The visual and textural differences in each work are harmonious, each painting having its own sensual logic and unexpected sense of presence. This aesthetic harmony is evident in her smaller scale works, head-sized canvases infused with the boundless energy of a dream landscape.

 

Daffodil (2011) is the earliest work Karsten Schubert London will bring to EXPO Chicago, and marks an important step in Glass’s career, which began during her MA at Goldsmiths, London in the late 1990s. She was part of a group of artists participating in high profile exhibitions across London and the US where her large-scale, collage-based group portraits of beautiful girls, plucked from magazines, on lustrous black backgrounds with graphic bands of text were acquired by influential collectors including Charles Saatchi. Exhibited at Antony D’offay (London, 2001) and the Barbican Art Gallery (London, 2002), this early, youthful work saw Glass borrowing content from throwaway sources as readily as she would from art history, mixing high, low and alternative culture into an exciting, seductive cohesion.

 

Daffodil, like these earlier works, is an expansive painting centred on the collaged face of a model cut out from a magazine, but here Glass’s geometrical underlying structure and expressive fields of swirling paint more confidently express a ritualistic, esoteric world. She invites the viewer to step into a ritual, reconnecting with folklore, animism and magic.

 

Karsten Schubert London announced representation of Kirsten Glass in 2021, following her debut exhibition with the gallery, Swimming Witches, in 2020. 

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Works
  • Kirsten Glass Vesica, 2017 Oil paint, acrylic, sand and embroidery thread on canvas 260 x 173 cm | 102 3/8 x 68 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Vesica, 2017
    Oil paint, acrylic, sand and embroidery thread on canvas
    260 x 173 cm | 102 3/8 x 68 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Kittens, 2017 Oil paint and wax pencil on canvas 274 x 183 cm | 107 7/8 x 72 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Kittens, 2017
    Oil paint and wax pencil on canvas
    274 x 183 cm | 107 7/8 x 72 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Daffodil, 2011 Oil and acrylic paint on canvas 275 x 168 cm | 108 1/4 x 66 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Daffodil, 2011
    Oil and acrylic paint on canvas
    275 x 168 cm | 108 1/4 x 66 1/8 in
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