Studiolo
Solo exhibition at Walgenbach Art & Books, 11 February to 16 March 2024.
Installation with drawings on paper and clay.
In Renaissance Italy, the studiolo was a small space in the heart of a villa or palazzo, where one could withdraw to read, make music, or admire one’s collections, with company or alone; a place for the contemplative, rather than the active life.
With Studiolo I present drawings on paper and clay in a contemporary, democratized version of this Renaissance cabinet. For the constellation of images I draw on a wide variety of sources. In its new combinations, the work invites the viewer to slow down their way of looking, to discover relationships and make new connections with existing memories of the images.
Richard Diebenkorn in his Berkeley Hills Studio
2023
Incised stoneware with underglaze colour 18.8×24.8×0.4 cm
Based on a 1956 photo by Rose Mandel for an uncredited feature in Artnews, May 1957. Bancroft et al., Richard Diebenkorn.
Darryl Pinckney and Elizabeth Hardwick in her Apartment, 1970s
2023
Coloured pencil and watercolour 26×40 cm
Based on a photo by Dominique Nabakov in Pinckney, ‘My Literary Education with Elizabeth Hardwick’.
Seminar: Hannah Arendt at the New School, 1968
2018
Incised porcelain with underglaze colour. Four Parts; total c. 34.5×20.5×0.5 cm
Based on an uncredited photo in the New School collection.