Saturday, February 10th from 6 – 9pm enjoy the opening of Sight-Line Trajectories: Antonietta Grassi, Janet Jones, Amy Schissel at the University of Miami art gallery in the Wynwood Art District. The gallery is located in the famous Wynwood Building at 2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4, in Miami, Florida 33127.
In her essay “Notes on the Diagram,” artist Amy Sillman notes that “a diagram is a perfect visual schema for posing impossible things, invisible forces, enigmas like the future—all posed as perfectly plausible vectors.”
Sight-Line Trajectories, brings together the work of three women painters who weave together references to digital technology, speculative futurity and feminism into their works, sketching relationships between these disparate valences in their complex, abstract compositions.
Antonietta Grassi, Janet Jones, and Amy Schissel each employ a process-driven aesthetic approach to create diagrammatic compositions that build and reflect on narratives about our current digital age, using the medium of painting to rupture algorithmic logic and redirect the forces of knowledge transmission. Collectively, their works respond to the history of abstraction and build on a legacy of feminist interventionist practices into its hegemonic narratives.
Sight-Line Trajectories, refers to vectors of the gaze, be they human, cyber or machine-made. Force lines that criss-cross real and virtual spaces allowing these artists to move dynamically between these modes and vectors, forging an intriguing plethora of new connections and new meanings. This project is part of a longer, ongoing collaboration between these three artists, all of whom share a career-long engagement with contemporary abstract painting.
This exhibition is on view until February 29, 2024, at the University of Miami Gallery in the Wynwood. Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., or by prior appointment. *Hours may be subject to change; please call (305) 284-3161 to confirm times.
For information about the gallery and our online offerings, please visit https://art.as.miami.edu/or contact Milly Cardoso, Gallery Director & Curator, m.cardoso1@miami.edu.