Annabeth Marks. Continuous Time

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Parker Gallery is proud to present Continuous Time, Annabeth Marks’ debut solo presentation at the gallery. The exhibition will feature an ensemble of new constructed paintings, including the largest and most complex examples to date, marking a considerable scale shift within this body of work.

Parker Gallery is proud to present Continuous Time, Annabeth Marks’ debut solo presentation at the gallery. The exhibition will feature an ensemble of new constructed paintings, including the largest and most complex examples to date, marking a considerable scale shift within this body of work.

While the grid is a loose motif across her practice, each painting has its own unique internal logic and structural integrity, each its own specific color scheme charged with associative and emotive qualities. The artist hand mixes her own paint in order to achieve the desired vibration of hues within the work, in some cases highlighting a solid tone—as in Silver Spirit and Iron Rich Edge—or building on relational combinations to activate a different kind of energy. As Marks notes, “While painting, color structures this investigation of material and pictorial space, it is the matter that moves between forms and projects out towards the viewer. I create visual relationships in my work that weave the eye in and out, between solid, flat color and depth, between illusion and the material complexity of a surface. The paintings are high chroma - I am interested in the gut level emotional currency that highly saturated color provokes.”

The largest works in the exhibition have a direct relationship to the scale of the human body, the woven elements knitting together like a rib cage. In Silver Spirit, a productive tension between color uniformity and surface relief combine to create a work that relishes in minute gestures of difference. Another work, Slipper, features a central red abstraction on dark ground, surrounded by a contrasting matte application of solid pink. Tabs of varying widths and lengths extend beyond the stretcher, drawing the eye down just as the center draws you in. 

The largest works in the exhibition have a direct relationship to the scale of the human body, the woven elements knitting together like a rib cage. In Silver Spirit, a productive tension between color uniformity and surface relief combine to create a work that relishes in minute gestures of difference. Another work, Slipper, features a central red abstraction on dark ground, surrounded by a contrasting matte application of solid pink. Tabs of varying widths and lengths extend beyond the stretcher, drawing the eye down just as the center draws you in.