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GALLERY REVIEW: Angela A’Court: Thisness—Gallery BOM

Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Posted September 15, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Monday Morning—Copyright 2017 Angela A'Court
Monday Morning—Copyright 2017 Angela A’Court

 

Soft pastel is as close as an artist can get to working with pigment itself, the powder that gives paint its color. It is also regarded unfairly as an amateur’s medium, though the impression is correct in that not many people use it with as much urgency and personal vision as Angela A’Court.


Starting with the notion that a still life is a conversation between objects, sometimes standing in for the people connected to them, A’Court renders glassware, flowers, teacups, and the like with a drawing style that flattens them into outlines and scumbled textures. A’Court wields both subdued colors, such as the cool grays and earthy browns of Monday Morning (2017), and ringing ones, such as the lemony tabletop of Blue Jug, with aplomb. The latter is dated 2012-17, indicating the monkish reflection behind these simplified compositions.


Japan, where the artist has lived and whose objects she has studied, has a saying: “Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”  It is high praise.

 

Show runs until 10.15. Gallery BOM, 460 Harrison Ave., Suite B7, Boston. gallerybom.com.

 

This review is being simultaneously published at Delicious Line, deliciousline.org. Franklin Einspruch is the editor-in-chief of Delicious Line.

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