FJORD is pleased to announce our 10th exhibition, Three in Doubles, a three person show featuring the works of Kelly McRaven, Dona Nelson and Shanna Waddell. April 2013.
"For thousands of years, people have made images of people, and today the world is filled with more of these images than ever before, but the discrepancy between images of people and aliveness, is as profound as ever. Regardless of the insights and research of doctors, scientists, philosophers, and theologians, we actually don’t know much about other people. It is a common mistake to think that we can understand people by capturing images of their outward appearance. So, what are figure paintings and portrait paintings? No matter the image, paintings express the painter who painted them, in respect to every decision that goes into their making."
Dona Nelson, March 2013
"Dona Nelson's paintings have a presence of materiality that often floats and implodes onto itself; at times not able to contain the borders of a canvas. Kelly McRaven has a carefully casual and considered manner to her painting that carries strong gestures of bravura within subject matters that bear a secretive standpoint. Shanna Waddell uses explosive paint handling in a post-expressionist pattern within subjects not limited to Satan and Kurt Cobain."
Shanna Waddell, March 2013
"A work can assert itself if given some time, so it's possible that these will be stronger later. Or maybe across several attempts, the thing that needs to be precise will find its way in a group effort. For now it's all about dislodging, translating, misfiring, and revisiting. And keeping the ball rolling."
Kelly McRaven, March 2013
"For thousands of years, people have made images of people, and today the world is filled with more of these images than ever before, but the discrepancy between images of people and aliveness, is as profound as ever. Regardless of the insights and research of doctors, scientists, philosophers, and theologians, we actually don’t know much about other people. It is a common mistake to think that we can understand people by capturing images of their outward appearance. So, what are figure paintings and portrait paintings? No matter the image, paintings express the painter who painted them, in respect to every decision that goes into their making."
Dona Nelson, March 2013
"Dona Nelson's paintings have a presence of materiality that often floats and implodes onto itself; at times not able to contain the borders of a canvas. Kelly McRaven has a carefully casual and considered manner to her painting that carries strong gestures of bravura within subject matters that bear a secretive standpoint. Shanna Waddell uses explosive paint handling in a post-expressionist pattern within subjects not limited to Satan and Kurt Cobain."
Shanna Waddell, March 2013
"A work can assert itself if given some time, so it's possible that these will be stronger later. Or maybe across several attempts, the thing that needs to be precise will find its way in a group effort. For now it's all about dislodging, translating, misfiring, and revisiting. And keeping the ball rolling."
Kelly McRaven, March 2013