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Installation view, Karla Black, Newhaven Art Projects, UK
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Karla Black
Made Up 3, 2023
Oil paint on copper
10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4 inches
Framed dimensions:
14.5 x 14.5 cm / 5.7 x 5.7 inches
Framed dimensions:
14.5 x 14.5 cm / 5.7 x 5.7 inches
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Karla Black’s work has been resolutely abstract, founded in an implicit faith in the liberatory potential of a direct perception of the materiality of things: their texture, hue, quantity, relations,...
Karla Black’s work has been resolutely abstract, founded in an implicit faith in the liberatory potential of a direct perception of the materiality of things: their texture, hue, quantity, relations, and so on. We often speak of 'raw material', and artists’ intentions usually involve 'cooking' their materials in order to transform them; but Black often seems determined to use her materials in such a way as to preserve their raw quiddity even as she orchestrates them with such subtlety.