Paper Trails
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and form & concept | October 2023
Paper Trails is a mixed media exhibition that draws compelling links between printmaking icons and contemporary sculptors. The show is a collaboration between Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and its sister collection, form & concept.
Legends of the Zane Bennett collection, including Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell, engage in aesthetic and conceptual conversation with form & concept’s new canon of emerging and established artists. In this show, prints evoke dimensionality and sculptures appear to have leapt from nearby inkscapes.
Press
The gallery placed a sponsored post in Hyperallergic with more insights on the show. “Pairings such as El Anatsui’s Black Edge with Pearl (2013) and Jami Porter Lara’s blackware vessels are intended to showcase the conceptual heft of craft media in contemporary art. The aim of such associations in this exhibition is to illustrate a fluid, spirited approach to the use of quotidian materials and dispel the persistent notion that great art can only be produced in a vacuum with oil paint on canvas.”
My contributions: Curatorial
Artwork: Jami Porter Lara (featured image), El Anatsui (header image), Helen Frankenthaler, C Alex Clark, Judy Chicago, Jiha Moon, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Angel Oloshove
Photography: Marylene Mey, Byron Flesher
Marketing Writing: Spencer Linford