The most challenging (& most fun) exhibition text I’ve written yet. @rorywmullen “On the Verge of Want” by @dartsldn . Movement guided by curiosity, encounter shaped by what the work permits. A wandering, a soft intrusion. Text in last slide.
The visual poetry of Cy Twombly.
When I look at Cy’s work, I think of the line as a trace, like handwriting when you’re emotional. You don’t write to make it look correct, you write because your hand needs to move. Cy resisted explanation. The line isn’t describing a story or a body, the line is the event. I’m seeing the movement of his arm, the gestures, and it all stays visible. Nothing is tidied up.
@still_museum 🖤🥀 Clyfford Still once said his paintings were “not pictures, but life and death merging in fearful union.” He was one of the most uncompromising voices of the abstract expressionist movement and his paintings are rarely found in private collections. Rothko feels like a whisper, Still feels like thunder. His works are not comforting. They confront you. They’re spiritual in an existential sense, confronting the primal reality of existence. In these paintings light is violent, battling darkness, leaving jagged scars across the canvas. Painted on enormous scales, they’re meant to engulf us and make us feel what it means to be swallowed by the void.
Canasta del Mar
2025
Glazed Ceramic
17.5” x 14” x 14”
SOLD
“I draw inspiration from natural textures, such as the ocean, seashells, and rocks, all of which are deeply tied to my home in Puerto Rico.”
#aspencollective #ChristinaGraceRoig #contemporaryceramics #handbuilt
