{"id":24975,"date":"2023-06-23T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=24975"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:58:43","slug":"jennie-jieun-lee-carrie-moyer-and-betty-parsons-i-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/jennie-jieun-lee-carrie-moyer-and-betty-parsons-i-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Jieun Lee, Carrie Moyer and Betty Parsons: I Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release from Alexander Gray Associates, New York<\/em>
\n\"Copyright
\nCarrie Moyer, Spilt Milk, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 28 in (101.6 x 71.1 cm), 41 1\/4 x 29 x 2 in framed (104.8 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm framed)<\/em><\/p>\n

I Spy
\nJune 23\u2013August 27, 2023
\nat Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NY, USA<\/p>\n

Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents I Spy<\/em>, a group exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by Jennie Jieun Lee, Carrie Moyer<\/a>, and Betty Parsons<\/a>. Spanning more than a half-century of artmaking, I Spy spotlights alternative, yet complimentary approaches to abstraction that embrace optical pleasure and compositional play. Together, Lee, Moyer, and Parsons use nonrepresentation to challenge divisions between content and form, embedding pseudo-figurative imagery into their work for viewers to parse out over time.<\/p>\n

All three artists employ color to inject a sense of spontaneity and verve into their abstractions. Deeply influenced by Color Field painting, which she championed at her eponymous gallery, Parsons filled her canvases with expressive fields of deeply saturated pigment\u2014acid greens, bright oranges, and mellow blues and grays. For the artist, color was not only experiential, but also referential. She used it to infuse an agitated buzz into the organic shapes of Forms (1976) while also applying it to evoke the effects of a sun-dappled lawn on a dazzling spring day in Spring Start (1976).<\/p>\n

In her paintings and works on paper, Moyer pays homage to the history of chromatic abstraction that informed Parsons\u2019s practice. Her compositions and techniques nod to influential female modernist painters like Helen Frankenthaler and reflect her long-standing engagement with feminist and queer theory. Combining elements of Pop Art with Color Field painting and graphic design, paintings like Spilt Milk<\/em> (2023), which boasts a thin, milk-like splatter of white paint, freely move between representation and abstraction. This playful seesawing\u2014a simultaneous rejection and embrace of formalism\u2014allows Moyer to elevate the visual, to revel in luminous expanses of acrylic, glitter adorned shapes, and textured biomorphic forms, while infusing these elements with content.<\/p>\n

Like Moyer, Lee crafts works that erode divisions between figuration and abstraction. Her ceramic busts reference a history of three-dimensional portraiture while challenging the conventions of the genre. Bathed in dripping, layered rivulets of glaze, the colorful, animated surfaces of these sculptures have an uncanny physicality that transfigures them into something distinctly other. In contrast, the rhythmic groupings of vessel-like forms, curving tubes, and slabs of clay that define Lee\u2019s wall reliefs possess a meditative lyricism. With titles that allude to specific dates and times\u2014May 27, 2020 (2020) and Monday at noon (2019)\u2014these constructions read as still lifes, tributes to past moments.<\/p>\n

Lee, Moyer, and Parsons\u2019s distinct approaches to abstraction are united by their shared joy in exploring the potentials of their chosen mediums. Their works use color and referential forms to speak to present moments while also looking beyond them. As Moyer concludes, \u201cBut I\u2019m getting such joy\u2014to use a corny word\u2014in the studio from just the process of making work. It\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, wow, look at this, enjoy this, come into the space where you get to be transported.\u2019 I think we are living in a particular atmosphere right now. Perhaps the desire to protect an emotion like joy is more political than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related Link<\/h2>\n

Parsons, Betty (1900-1982) by Tee A. Corinne<\/a> (Encyclopedia Copyright \u00a9 2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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