Geometries

The Euclidian lines between points that I utilize in the construction of Geometries are harvested from images posted to Instagram of iconic avant-garde and abstract works, by artistic luminaries including László Moholy-Nagy, Ellsworth Kelly, and Barnett Newman. I was interested in the extent to which the these historic abstract compositions – these physical and material works of art - maintain their identity in an image environment that is constantly versioning the “original” work. Using the variations provided by social media, I create photographic, acetate and other material planes, layered in my attempt to adhere to the orientable geometry of 20th Century Modernism – and aim to reanimate the Euclidian idea of the line via the copies and manipulations of their source.