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Frieze Magazine: Pae White by Dale McFarland: http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/pae_white/
Summer Sampler is a collection of spider webs, each one sprayed with paint and mounted separately on a different coloured card. More obviously figurative than the other pieces in the show, these framed images are scattered randomly over one of the gallery walls like delicate souvenirs of past summers. The pastel shades and glitter give the collection a childlike charisma reminiscent of primary school handicrafts; making pictures with macaroni or taking a pencil for a walk. Spiders webs are literally ‘homespun’, beautiful, useful and almost invisible, they could be metaphors for domestic production, small scale and personal.
Pae White is one of the artists that I was included in my Curate and Critique this year. I fell in love with these delicate works which brings the beautiful 'homespun' spiders webs from nature in to contact with her hand made colorful backgrounds in an interesting collision, focusing on their almost invisible presence.
I like how these works are both beautiful, handcrafted, delicate, elegant and yet they also have an experimental vibe which springs from their color, size variation and the way that White has installed them scattered randomly over the gallery wall.
This way of installing my works may work well with my interest in being experimental with my making process and trying to create relationships and comparisons between works. I have become more interested in the delicacy and handcraftedness of each individual work but at the same time each work is an experiment of image making, gesture, line, layering and color and I feel that this type of installation may bring out the experimental, intuitive side of each work and who they all converse with each other and the viewer.
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