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Sight Line Trajectories 2024
Sight-Line Trajectories: Antonietta Grassi, Janet Jones, Amy Schissel
Wynwood Gallery, University of Miami – March 2024. In her essay “Notes on the Diagram,” artist Amy Sillman notes that “a diagram is a perfect visual schema for posing impossible things, invisible forces, enigmas like the future—all posed as perfectly plausible vectors.”1 Sight-Line Trajectories, brings together the work of three women painters who weave together references to digital technology, speculative futurity and feminism into their works, sketching relationships between these disparate valences in their complex, abstract compositions. Antonietta Grassi, Janet Jones, and Amy Schissel each employ a process-driven aesthetic approach to create diagrammatic compositions that build and reflect on narratives about our current digital age, using the medium of painting to rupture algorithmic logic and redirect the forces of knowledge transmission. Collectively, their works respond to the history of abstraction and build on a legacy of feminist interventionist practices into its hegemonic narratives. Sight-Line Trajectories, refers to vectors of the gaze, be they human, cyber or machine-made. Force lines that criss-cross real and virtual spaces allowing these artists to move dynamically between these modes and vectors, forging an intriguing plethora of new connections and new meanings. This project is part of a longer, ongoing collaboration between these three artists, all of whom share a career-long engagement with contemporary abstract painting. 1 Amy Sillman, “Notes on the Diagram” from Charlotte Houette, Francois Lancien-Guilberteau, and Benjamin Thorel, ed. Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings of Amy Sillman (Paris: After8 Books, 2020): 129 |
