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1614 Latimer Street |
 Notations #12 pigment inkjet, 40"x40" |
Cheryl
Kolak Dudek
Notations May 19 - July 12, 2000 |
| Opening
reception Friday, May 19, 2000 5:30 7:00 p.m. Included in the exhibition are twenty-four large format ink jet prints of gestural black ink paintings each overlayed upon a common background-- Monet’s Water Lilies at Giverny. The reproductive dot pattern of Monet’s water lilies is akin to a mechanical pattern that provides stark contrast to Dudek’s spontaneous ink painting. On one level, Notations is an exploration of drawing as an immediate and forceful subconscious process similar to that employed by the early Surrealists in their automatic drawings. The images in Notations are a compilation of automatic drawings, doodles if you will, that Dudek made while talking on the phone, usually about school business. “I purposefully chose my phone notations as a subject for prints because I consider them a less than conscious aspect of my drawing… I have chosen Monet’s Water Lilies as a ground because I believe that his later, large scale paintings are an important reference for contemporary abstraction. “Notations is also about cultural bias.” While working on Notations, Dudek was studying African Kuba cloth. “They are beautiful textiles that reveal as much about African culture as they do about the provocative and arbitrary choices of the maker.” The implied mathematical structures of weaving are secondary to the Kuba artist’s aesthetic innovations in pattern. “The images in Notations are square in homage to the square Kuba cloths that I studied.” Dudek is currently Associate Professor of Printmaking and Photography at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work can be found in the collections of IBM, the New York Public library, Print Collection, NY, NY, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, and The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Dudek’s work was exhibited in The Print Center’s 53rd Annual International Competition: Printmaking held in 1979. See Matthew Lawrences exhibition , also currently at The Print Center See Juan Logans exhibition , also currently at The Print Center See The Print Centers last show>> |
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