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Kirsten Glass: Night-Scented Stock

Past exhibition
25 November 2022 - 20 January 2023 Karsten Schubert London, Offer Waterman
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Seaside, 2022
Seaside, 2022

An exhibition in association with Offer Waterman 

 

Kirsten Glass conjures images and gestures into layers of synchronicity. Circling between up to six paintings at a time, Glass allows the images to gradually come into their own, with their distinct shapes shifting through fields of colour.

 

‘Each painting is an adventure’, says Glass. And while their formation is dependent on distinct painterly processes, Glass leaves room for ideas to change along the way. Incorporating materials such as glitter and thread, sewn through the back of the canvas, the paintings often veer into abstraction, their surfaces allowing for multiple readings.

 

Certain patterns and images reappear throughout. On the use of stock images drawn from the internet, Glass describes their ‘generic picture-parts hiding their particularity, and at the same time becoming more alive or animated by their association with the rest of the painting’. 

 

Night-Scented Stock (2022) contains a white triangle from a previous painting—one of the many ‘scars’ that appear in Glass’ layered works. Here, a collection of forest animals from a single stock image discovered upon googling ‘animal silhouettes’ is placed alongside the figure of a baby witch.

 

The incorporation of cut-outs relates to Glass’ use of sigils—symbols used in Chaos Magic that are imbued and arranged according to intent. In her paintings, Glass’ intent usually changes along the course of creation, allowing its own logic to come into being.

 

The black background of Night-Scented Stock (2022) gradates into a Prussian blue glaze, resembling an open sky turning to night, enveloping the animals and witch in a heady atmosphere. Glass’ playful titling of the work relates to the type of flower that opens its petals towards the evening, around which point its scent peaks, but also to the stock images that informs her subject.

 

In an interview with Cathy Lomax in the catalogue accompanying Swimming Witches, Glass’ 2020 solo exhibition with Karsten Schubert, the artist described her approach as being like ‘an artisan doing jobs while the paintings are dreaming’. In Flying Dream (2022), the reference to stock imagery is less obvious, and the image really does appear as a dream.

 

Upon first glance, the viewer might not notice the female figure that appears to be pulling the hull of a boat into a smoky realm encased by curving yellow forms; or the one at the bottom, shrouded in blurred white paint against a black background; an undulating, fuchsia-pink form hovering to the left.

 

Keeping close to the constraints of painting, Glass embraces working at immense scale, wary that going any further could push the works into installations. Another method of containment is the recurrence of certain patterns that provide a foundational grid. These include the flower of life—a sacred geometric form that consists of overlapping circles, used by Glass as ‘pictorial shorthand for the idea of potential’. The beauty of Glass’ paintings is that, once complete, this potential is infinite, with every viewer arriving at their own reading.

 

This is the second collaboration between Offer Waterman and Karsten Schubert London, following Alison Wilding: Acanthus, Asymmetrically (2017). 

 
Kirsten Glass: Night-Scented Stock is accompanied by an exhibition booklet with writing by Tom Jeffreys. 
 
The exhibition is open Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm.
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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2022
  • Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
    Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
  • Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
    Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
  • Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
    Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
  • Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
    Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
  • Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
    Installation view, Offer Waterman, 2022
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Works
  • Kirsten Glass Night-Scented Stock, 2022 Oil, glitter and embroidery thread on canvas 239 x 168 cm | 94 1/8 x 66 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Night-Scented Stock, 2022
    Oil, glitter and embroidery thread on canvas
    239 x 168 cm | 94 1/8 x 66 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Flying Dream, 2022 Oil, glitter and embroidery thread on canvas 240 x 190 cm | 94 1/2 x 74 3/4 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Flying Dream, 2022
    Oil, glitter and embroidery thread on canvas
    240 x 190 cm | 94 1/2 x 74 3/4 in
  • Kirsten Glass Seaside, 2022 Oil, embroidery thread and hagstone on canvas 163 x 130 cm | 64 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Seaside, 2022
    Oil, embroidery thread and hagstone on canvas
    163 x 130 cm | 64 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Hawthorn Helper, 2022 Oil, wax pencil, glitter, embroidery thread on canvas 195 x 160 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Hawthorn Helper, 2022
    Oil, wax pencil, glitter, embroidery thread on canvas
    195 x 160 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 in
  • Kirsten Glass Hello Morgana!, 2022 Oil, wax pencil, glitter, embroidery thread on canvas 229 x 122 cm | 90 1/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Hello Morgana!, 2022
    Oil, wax pencil, glitter, embroidery thread on canvas
    229 x 122 cm | 90 1/8 x 48 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Strangers, 2022 Oil, spray acrylic and embroidery thread on canvas 153 x 122cm | 60 1/4 x 48 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Strangers, 2022
    Oil, spray acrylic and embroidery thread on canvas
    153 x 122cm | 60 1/4 x 48 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Painting with Hekate, 2022 Oil, wax pencil, glitter, sand, embroidery thread on canvas 240 x 190 cm | 94 1/2 x 74 3/4 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Painting with Hekate, 2022
    Oil, wax pencil, glitter, sand, embroidery thread on canvas
    240 x 190 cm | 94 1/2 x 74 3/4 in
  • Kirsten Glass Creatures, 2022 Oil, embroidery thread and hagstone on canvas 195 x 161 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 3/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Creatures, 2022
    Oil, embroidery thread and hagstone on canvas
    195 x 161 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 3/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Charmer, 2022 Oil and embroidery thread on canvas 195 x 161 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 3/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Charmer, 2022
    Oil and embroidery thread on canvas
    195 x 161 cm | 76 3/4 x 63 3/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Summer to Winter #5, 2022 Oil on gesso panel 30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Summer to Winter #5, 2022
    Oil on gesso panel
    30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Summer to Winter #1, 2022 Oil on gesso panel 30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Summer to Winter #1, 2022
    Oil on gesso panel
    30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Summer to Winter #4, 2022 Oil on gesso panel 30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Summer to Winter #4, 2022
    Oil on gesso panel
    30 x 20 cm | 11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
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Publications
  • Kirsten Glass

    Kirsten Glass

    Night-Scented Stock 2022 Softcover 23pp pages
    Dimensions: 25 x 17 cm
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News
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’s Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert London

    Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’s Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert London

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