Adam Tutorial – Katy Moran and Karla Black

During our tutorial, Adam spoke about colleges in the States that I could do an MA in.

He mentioned that I should look at the work of Katy Moran, her use of an open plane and the aesthetic of domesticity as linked to feminism. He told me to be critical of the materials I use in relation to the themes approached.

abstract painting

Karla Black

Karla Black Doesn’t Care In Words 2011 (detail), Cellophane, paint, Sellotape, sugar paper, chalk, powder paint, plaster powder, wood, polystyrene, polythene, thread, bath bombs, petroleum jelly, moisturising cream, Dimensions Variable. Photo: Colin Davison, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

In 2011 Black was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, installing two artworks into Gatehead’s Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art – Doesn’t Care in Words and More of the Day, 2011. The huge, sprawling installation comprised enormous sheets of crumpled sugar paper and paint splattered cellophane, combined with pastel coloured powders made from crushed bath bombs. This sensory, all-encompassing work straddled between an overpowering strength of scale and a fragility of form, as if it was about to collapse in on itself. (national galleries of Scotland).

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