Artist Quincy Irving painted a 46-yard curtain for Play Days: Wrong Edition
@theicala . The piece is titled Arranged to be Pleated (Following High Noon), 2019: “A shadow centers itself on a flight of stairs and threatens to descend; the conversations below begin to falter as silhouettes disentangle and fluctuate across various surfaces. The room’s occupants have vacated, though what persists is strewn across the floor, hanging precariously. Weighted down not by the painted architecture but rather its physical volume, the pleated curtain masquerades as a backdrop. Quickly the distinction between fabric and figure collapses, revealing the fiction and permeability of the gates, fences, boundaries. While these delineations suppose a sort of hierarchy, the hoisting of the fabric (its buoyancy) intervenes, staging a plot -- at least an atmosphere, albeit disjointed.” Quincy Irving, born in Long Beach, California, received a BA in Studio Art (2019) from UCLA with minors in LGBTQ studies and Visual and Performing Arts. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
This is the last week to see
@quincyirving curtain and other pieces at Play Days: Wrong sedition, closing January 26!