Isabel Nolan: An answer about the sky
Sean Kelly announces An answer about the sky, an exhibition of new work by Isabel Nolan. This will be the artist鈥檚 first solo exhibition in New York. An opening reception will take place on Friday, September 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The artist will be present.
An answer about the sky will include new hand-made sculptures, paintings, a text piece and Nolan鈥檚 newest large-scale textile work, The emptied room: A rug for the 20th Century. The works are exemplary of the artist鈥檚 restless investigation of the omnipresent aesthetic compulsion to find order, to generate a material record of place and time and thus secure an understanding of the world.
The exhibition title is from the Strugatsky Brothers鈥� novel Definitely Maybe (1974), referring to a thwarted effort to find the answer to one question and receiving information on an entirely different matter. Nolan sees this as a metaphor for productive artistic research:
Sean Kelly announces An answer about the sky, an exhibition of new work by Isabel Nolan. This will be the artist鈥檚 first solo exhibition in New York. An opening reception will take place on Friday, September 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The artist will be present.
An answer about the sky will include new hand-made sculptures, paintings, a text piece and Nolan鈥檚 newest large-scale textile work, The emptied room: A rug for the 20th Century. The works are exemplary of the artist鈥檚 restless investigation of the omnipresent aesthetic compulsion to find order, to generate a material record of place and time and thus secure an understanding of the world.
The exhibition title is from the Strugatsky Brothers鈥� novel Definitely Maybe (1974), referring to a thwarted effort to find the answer to one question and receiving information on an entirely different matter. Nolan sees this as a metaphor for productive artistic research:
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