PLEIN SOLEIL — 16 NICHOLSON STREET
Paper, foil, clay, daffodils, moss, tissue paper, acrylic paint, glitter, cellophane, disco mirror tiles, yarn, lotteria cards, paintings
16 Nicholson Street Gallery and Arts Collective
2017
Plein Soleil is an intimate, yellow universe of manipulated and repurposed garbage, accumulations of light, and collections of shadows that originiated in my Glasgow art studio over the course of seven months, but lives on as a traveling, ephemeral state of mind. Under continuous construction and forever evolving, Plein Soleil is a culmination of assembled objects, time, gestures, and residues, an ephemeral world built to one’s own measure. It is a space that strangely obscures the conventional delineations between real and artificial, organic and manipulated, new and discarded.
Plein Soleil — 16 Nicholson Street takes inspiration from Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. Embracing the color yellow within a domestic interior, it transforms the gallery space into a garden, complete with a waterfall, hanging vines, trees, rocks, flower beds, and a sitting bench.