Like jagged fragments of stained glass intersecting the canvas, Lecia Dole-Recio’s works – which straddle the boundary between collage and painting – are made up of sharp geometric shapes, often multicoloured isosceles and scalene triangles. Dole-Recio’s “painted constructions” are constructed out of these shapes, motifs cut out from cardboard or rendered with tape, paper and paint. The artist’s process is one of amalgamation and reuse; she likens it to the Roman building technique of spolia, in which old masonry and stone reliefs would be combined to create new buildings and other structures. In this process nothing is wasted, no debris of Dole-Recio’s practice – from unused shards and splinters – is not reclaimed and reprocessed into a new work.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
