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    Second Sight

    New Work by Christina McPhee

    by Cerritos College Art Gallery

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    This groundbreaking presentation assembles a significant number of Christina McPhee’s large-scale abstract paintings, several of her smaller gestural drawings, selections from her ongoing photographic Double Blind Studies series, and a new video collage, Microswarm Patchwork. With the debut of SECOND SIGHT, McPhee aspires to become the paradoxical incendiary spark of the after-burn, merging the over-written with layers of the undone, channeling voice-overs in excessive translation. Through multi-layered works in painting, drawing, photography, and video, she creates fluid, intricate line systems that mesh and contract in bravura-comical allusions to anime, graffiti, and the lost art of handwriting.
    Her paintings are constructed using a laborious ink-over-oil process, whereby drawing, typically thought of as the primal under-layment, becomes the top-most layer, an illumination, on top of painted and incised surfaces. Each work expertly pulls from, and combines, multiple specialized codes; variously excavating the entomological futures of classical Mayan grammar, dipping into the alphabet soup of deep-sea taxonomies in the post-oil spill Gulf of Mexico, and setting to war the chemical transcriptions of synthetic estrogen and commercial weed-killer.
    Her performative engagement with drawing vibrantly animates a dense montage, colliding semi-legible transcriptions of fragile ecologies and seismic landscapes with seductive surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making; lines throw down rope-like bridges, a cat’s-cradle network of convergent signifiers; cached and clustered, fragments take exception to systems.
    The lush photographs from her Double Blind Studies series consist of Rorschach-like gelatin silver prints, pseudo-documents of her own paintings, dissected and butterflied into an ambiguous display exerting a strong forensic affect that calls into question the nature of contextualized perception and the illusive finality of the creative act itself.
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    • Primary Category: Fine Art
    • Project Option: Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
      # of Pages: 70
    • Publish Date: May 13, 2019
    • Language English
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    jmacdevitt
    Cerritos College Art Gallery
    Norwalk, CA

    The Cerritos College Art Gallery presents rotating exhibitions highlighting the work of emerging and mid-career artists. A special emphasis is placed on works that confront challenging and pressing issues in contemporary art and culture. In support of exhibitions, the Cerritos College Art Gallery also regularly hosts workshops, lectures, and performances.

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