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“Making
It Up,” essay by curators David Finn and Victor Faccinto for brochure
for Making It Up show at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1999
Making It Up
Making It Up exhibits the work of four artists who use improvisation along
with a palette of everyday materials, including fabric, fruit, sponges,
papier mache, wood, paint, etc. in the process of making up their work.
The materials in themselves are not exotic, often tried and true, but
like the use of the saxophone in jazz, unquestionably right for the creation
of the sculpture.
The first impression we often have of spontaneous passages in jazz or
visual art is that they are formless, haphazard. It is only when one becomes
more familiar with the work that form and discipline are apparent. Yet
spontaneity and improvisations that look or sound good are often the result
of lots of practice and hard work. Craft must be mastered, even if it
is subverted. Decisions to rework or accept riffs and passages are continually
made and remade during the creative process. Finding the right material
or the exact way to work with it may take months or years of experimentation.
Utilizing the accidental, the informal, the offhand is a talent shared
by these four artists. From Drew Shiflett’s sublime orchestration
of everyday stuff to Susanna Starr’s experiments with huge
pools of paint on giant sponges; from Ava Gerber’s fragile evocations
of self, to Jeffrey Gurecka’s meditations on decay, the artists
in Making It Up are all masters of the illusion of spontaneity.
Exhibition Curators
David Finn
Victor Faccinto |
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