Artist Torkwase Dyson discusses her latest Pace gallery show, 'Studies for Bird and Lava.'
The Harlem-based artist recently had a weeklong exhibition of new work at Pace’s recently opened gallery in East Hampton. It’s her first show with the gallery, which began representing the artist earlier this year.
Dyson’s work is articulated from her overarching theory of Black Compositional Thought. “It’s this larger idea of space and movement, how things get situated in space and liberated,” Dyson explains. Specifically, she’s interested in what mark-making and space — geometric abstraction — can reveal about how Black bodies interact with and are affected by built environments; how those spaces have been used for resistance and survival.
The pandemic has had little effect on Dyson’s process, although it has caused several upcoming shows to get pushed back. The upside is that the delays add up to more time for Dyson to create, and the ability to slow down and observe the effect that time has on the process of mark-making. “I’m really enjoying all of the time and the space to be creative in a way that has made it so the objects in my studio are really speaking to each other, in a way they haven’t before,” she says.
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