{"id":1060,"date":"2012-05-25T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2025-02-09T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:59:00","slug":"elizabeth-mcalpine-at-laurel-gitlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/elizabeth-mcalpine-at-laurel-gitlen\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth McAlpine at Laurel Gitlen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elizabeth McAlpine at Laurel Gitlen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No artist stereotype is as persistent as the garret-living starving artist, but a runner up with a more contemporary feel must be the artist trapped in the studio, ruminating on his or her surroundings.\u00a0 Bruce Nauman\u2019s floor-pacing, wall-bouncing videos from the 60s and \u2018Mapping the Studio<\/a>\u2026\u2019 from \u201901 give the artist\u2019s space itself a role in the creative process.\u00a0 Jeanne Silverthorne<\/a> casts her studio floor as a means of \u2018archaeology\u2019 while artists like Ellen Altfest<\/a> have created meticulous renderings of paint-splattered floors, plants and views from the window of her studio.<\/p>\n

London-based artist Elizabeth McAlpine<\/a> also reproduces scenes from the studio, but obscures their origins in \u2018The Map of Exactitude,\u2019 her first New York solo show. \u00a0\u00a0The exhibition features mysteriously shaped sculptures combining organic and geometric forms and even more eccentric-looking framed images on paper that hint at architectural diagrams which, in a way, they are.\u00a0 McAlpine\u2019s sculptures are actually casts of the ceilings and corners of another artist\u2019s studio, which she then made into pinhole cameras with multiple tiny openings.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth McAlpine at Laurel Gitlen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photosensitive paper folded to the dimensions of the casts\u2019 interiors records multiple views that are often so abstract, they don\u2019t really give much insight into a place that is intended for art making.\u00a0 Instead, McAlpine puts the artistic process itself on display by exhibiting her tools and the resulting images \u2013 sculpture-like cameras – on equal footing.\u00a0\u00a0 Using the peculiarities of the space to make artwork about the space could be obnoxiously self-referential, but comes across instead as a thoughtful reflection on the process of pursuing ideas and discerning meaning in the studio.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth McAlpine at Laurel Gitlen<\/a>, 261 Broome Street, Show extended through July 1, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No artist stereotype is as persistent as the garret-living starving artist, but a runner up with a more contemporary feel must be the artist trapped in the studio, ruminating on his or her surroundings.\u00a0 Bruce Nauman\u2019s floor-pacing, wall-bouncing videos from the 60s and \u2018Mapping the Studio\u2026\u2019 from \u201901 give the artist\u2019s space itself a role … <\/p>\n

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