Marilla Palmer   new work 11 january - 11 february, 2002 opening friday, 11 january, 7-9p gallery 1         backyard paradise (detail), 2001 mixed media 7.5 x 7.5 feet             backyard paradise, 2001 stainless steel, silk, beads, astroturf, sequins and holographic vinyl (5 pieces installed in variable dimensions)             sky, 2001 stainless steel, fabric and sequins 70 x 60 x 5 inches             three shapes, 2001 stainless steel, silk, beads, and fur 28 x 25.5 inches     press release   Pierogi is delighted to present new work by Marilla Palmer. Palmer's work has been exhibited in the US and Europe, including solo shows in New York and Los Angeles. In the past she has furthered the tradition of painting by exploring the delicate and diaphanous nature of fabrics using non-painting techniques such as stitching, embroidery and beading. More recently, she has continued this exploration to make sculptural "paintings." Marilla Palmer translates color field painting into the sculptural realm, building layer upon layer of textured, diaphanous, holographic, and iridescent fabric on...steel armature[s]. ("ArtScene," Southern California) In this show she combines the strongest of these elements to develop a subtle narrative. These sculptural works combine Warhol, psychedelia, and what are typically considered "feminine" influences through Palmer's response to the artifice of her suburban landscape. In her environment there's a kind of urbanized love of natural landscape going on, none of us have enough of it, we do what we can. Behind the faux Bavarian shingle homes are backyard paradises: a rose arbor supplemented with unnaturally colored plastic flowers, pools way too big for the yard.... I use the tools of the faux gardener and costumer: astro turf, sequins, clear plastic, artificial flowers, as well as air movement, light, shadow, reflection. In all of this Palmer works toward exposing the sublime of the artificial and fanciful. "I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts...." (Warhol)
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