This striking desert landscape artwork features a dramatic composition of bold, earthy hues and rugged, sculptural forms. The central figure, wrapped in a protective cocoon-like structure, stands amidst the undulating, weathered terrain, symbolizing the human experience in an arid, challenging environment. The artist's unique visual style and experimental use of materials evoke a sense of vulnerability and resilience, inviting the viewer to contemplate the delicate balance between man and nature. The work reflects the artist's intention to explore the human condition within the harsh, unforgiving beauty of the desert setting. ...
Katie Grinnan’s work is focused on the body and its functions. She is fascinated by kinaesthesis, cognition and vision, specifically the ways in which these intricate and finely calibrated knowledge systems provide inherently subjective and unique perceptions of reality, emotion and self. Grinnan is interested in the occupation of different states of consciousness, for example meditation and dreaming, and how they different themselves from the state of wakefulness and full cognition. The artist’s sculptures are manifestations of the mind and its boundaries, rendered in materials like plastic, enamel and sand, often casts of her own body. In ‘Mirage’ (2011), Grinnan cast her body incrementally during her daily yoga routine, with a symphony of limbs made from sand extending outwards, delineating the passing of time and the body’s perpetual journey towards disintegration.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...
