“FROM THREE, TWO presents works on paper and canvas by three artists who have built international reputations for their innovative sculptural and installation practices—revealing how work in two-dimensions expands, rather than minimizes, their engagement with space, volume, and three-dimensional form.”
“The works insist on the vital, generative role of two-dimensional work within each artists’ practice—no less effectual in meaning than their work in three-dimensions.”
“The human figure that is often central to Rimzon’s sculptural works, however, does not play the same role here; yet even in scenes bereft of the figure, the paintings convey a sense of amplitude—a fullness that implies without describing presence, just as the paintings’ simplified forms create a sense of space - physical and more-than-physical with the sparest of means.”
“Extracting from earth/soil, Bala utilizes these pigments he created in the silkscreens and paintings on canvas; the resulting works not only describe the landscape or reflect its palette, but are substantively of it, determining not just the form, but its content at an elemental level.”
“Less a receptacle for her own ideas or impressions, paper for Shettar instead acts as a kind of sensitized surface, capable of recording its contact with the vital interior of each material it encounters—the gauzy weave of muslin preserved in henna or the countenance-like pattern created by a woodblock’s unique grain.”
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N.N. RIMZON
ALWAR BALASUBRAMANIAM
RANJANI SHETTAR