Glimmers of the Radiant Real

Essays by: Ruth Jones, Sam Mogelonsky, Vanessa Nicholas
Published by Robert McLaughlin Gallery
2018
Softcover, 84 pages
Size: 9 x 7.5 in
ISBN: 9781926589978
 
Participating artists: Katie Bethune-Leamen, Broadbent Sisters, Daniel Griffin Hunt, Sanaz Mazinani, Sandy Plotnikoff, Mary Pratt, Cole Swanson, Catherine Telford-Keogh, Xiaojing Yan.

Working in materials such as gold, glass, foil, and plastic, nine artists create works that glimmer, sparkle, and shine—revealing far more than their surface value. Radiance, that quality of light so often associated with the marvelous and the modern, is subverted in these works by the relationship between the quality of a surface and what it covers, reflects, or contains. The combination of familiar materials and perceptual distortion, the mirrored illusion of extended space, the fracturing and projection of the viewer’s body, and rainbow refractions of white gallery light all work to create an uncertainty about the reality of the experience.

Published in association with the exhibition Glimmers of the Radiant Real (May 12 - September 9, 2018).