Description: The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the Paris-based scholar Susan L. Power. Yossifor’s new series of large scale paintings establishes a dialogue of duality and opposition. The paintings deploy a striking visual vocabulary of combined mediums that include painting materials and surrealist automatic drawing techniques, with the textural qualities of sculptural reliefs. Acknowledging the wandering mind as a part of her process, the artist orchestrates these compositions through an exchange of structure and spontaneity. This interplay between oppositional forces is articulated by André Breton in his seminal 1932 text Communicating Vessels. The title is a metaphor for the permeability between the exterior and interior worlds. Yossifor’s Communicating Vessels is anchored by two large scale paintings, Water and Solar. Their thickly textured black and golden surfaces both contrast and complement each other. Yossifor adds, “In this exhibition, it is about these lines of communication between ideas across a space and between opposites. One painting emits light and one absorbs it.” Yossifor’s myriad of marks, from cross-hatchings to ample looping lines, creates a rhythmic conversation between the paintings, the artist, and her audience. “These exuberant expanses of paint reward sustained contemplation, inviting the viewer to experience the exchange and entanglement of complementary pairings—accretion and removal, motion and stillness, action and reflection, radiance and shadow, vigor and languor, agitation and serenity, give and take, back and forth,” states Power. LIAT YOSSIFOR received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 2002. She was an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg residency in Florida in 2020; and a guest of the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany in 2010.
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Book Title: Liat Yossifor Communicating Vessels
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Gallery Books
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2020
Format: Hardcover
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Author: Liat Yossifor
Features: Illustrated
Topic: Art
Unit Quantity: One
