Name/Title
The Myth of ShadowsEntry/Object ID
2021.05Description
Large canvas with black background, pink and grey abstract shapes.Context
Caroline Kent rediscovers and redefines language and abstraction in painting. Though the forms in her paintings resemble familiar shapes, together they create an abstract dimension where symbols, movements, and marks exist together with various meanings. This negation and redefinition of language took rook for the artist while living in and deciphering the foreign dialects of Romania.
The Myth of Shadows borrows its lines and angles directly from a Mexican mathematical textbook. Devoid of its graphs though, these marks both lack direct meaning while simultaneously transforming themselves into new signifiers. When comparing the gestures in the drawings Future Moments Need Future Movements to those in The Myth of Shadows, there are similarities in the shapes' compositions. Avoiding direct translation, however, Kent lightly tapes performative cues into place near each symbol, suggesting an impermanence–the potential for rearrangement and, therefore, a redefinition of the form.Acquisition
Accession
2021.05Source or Donor
PATRON Gallery, Kent, CarolineAcquisition Method
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Courtesy of the artistLexicon
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Caroline Kent: An Improvisation of Form