June Pomattos “Minimalist” Show Opens November First at Artists Gallery Pomatto describes her work as “bas-relief sculpture using recycled materials, all white, and minimal in style.” Minimalism creates objects of interest and beauty by reducing their work to the smallest number of colors, values, shapes, lines, and textures. In Pomatto’s work, found plastic objects are incorporated onto a canvass that focuses our attention on material that we rarely concern ourselves with. The minimalist provides art that removes the interaction the artist has with the work and focuses solely on the viewer’s reaction. All self-expression and social, political and religious relationship to the work of art is removed. The work stands alone in front of the viewer and the viewer creates a relationship with the work. In the works of June Pomatto, recycled material is provided to evoke a personal response. Recycled, or in some cases the “unrecycled” material, is what makes up our material world. The articles of life that we create or are created for our use, and perhaps a singular use, will last in many cases forever. By viewing this material we encounter our own mortality and our legacy that remains after we die. The monochromatic nature of the work concentrates our focus on the material. All white and clear, or in other words absent of color and the accompanying emotions associated with color, the work forces us to concentrate on the manufactured element of the work. That element, a plastic plate for example, embodies the past and future. From the history of mass production to the dilemma of what to do with all that left over material, the work puts us firmly on the threshold of one of man’s greatest achievements to perhaps man’s greatest future problem. The show runs through the month of November.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:21:52 +0000
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