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C110 review
Dublin: Maria Simonds-Gooding
at Taylor Galleries
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| Maria Simonds-Gooding: Harvest Within
II , 2000, plaster work, 81 x 102 cm; courtesy the artist |
Maria Simonds-Gooding's plasterworks, tapestries
and prints investigate the elemental link between people and nature,
and between the artist and her materials. In Fields of Vision,
the medium and the subject matter are in dynamic relationship
with each other: not simply landscapes, her sparse, abstracted
aerial-view images cultivate the medium as humans cultivate the
land.
The tensional relationship that develops
between contrasts of texture and form is echoed in the tension
between void and enclosure, and between the empty space and the
field. In the plasterworks, rough, stone-like areas emerge from
the surface and thin, curving lines create indented grooves. This
articulation gives the images a tactile, visceral three-dimensionality.
The floating forms and abstract lines connect and disconnect,
enclosing areas, creating boundaries or extending beyond the borders
of the plasterwork. Simonds-Gooding's distilled mark-making corresponds
to the universal human struggle to cultivate the land, and epitomizes
the enduring marks left by interventions on the landscape.
Eimear McKeith is a visual-arts columnist
for The Event Guide.
Maria Simonds-Gooding: Fields
of Vision, Taylor Galleries, Dublin. September 2004
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