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A Strange Loop: An Exhibition of Painting

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2011-05-17T17:28:48Z

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Shields, Alison

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University of Waterloo

Abstract

“A Strange Loop” explores abstraction through a series of paintings that begin from a single point and evolve infinitely to create a self-contained, self-referential, and yet endlessly self-generating world. The series was created through an elaborate and repetitive process of tracing the marks, drips and forms from an existing painting. These traced drawings archive the act of painting, and serve as a map that reconstructs the space of the subsequent layers, which in turn generate future paintings. The drawings work in a symbiotic relationship with the paintings, each evolving in relation to each other and perpetuating each others’ existence. The resulting paintings are fictional spaces which emerge out of the painting process itself.

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painting, abstraction

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5933

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Fine Arts