August 26 - November 9, 2024
From Texas State Galleries:
“My work is built up slowly through process, using a now-distilled visual vocabulary, and in response to material language and formal/poetic relationships.
—Kathleen McShane
Kathleen McShane’s new exhibition OUT(SIDE) OF TIME showcases the artist’s approach to drawing, a medium she explores through her distinctive use of materials and techniques. Her works take on a variety of experimental forms. Elements within her drawings, for instance, often occupy a strange and suspended kind of space with multiple implied ground planes. In this way, they function like abstract, speculative landscapes, often incorporating collage elements that invite the audience to consider the tensions she creates between flatness and three-dimensionality.
McShane’s experience as a draftsperson for site-specific installations with artists Pat Steir and Sol LeWitt imbued her with a profound understanding of how the architecture of a space can influence the character of the work. For McShane, the exhibition space itself is an integral collaborator. In this exhibition, she transforms the gallery into a strange tableau of forms—her drawings and painted objects interact in deliberate configurations, from corner pieces to mobiles, creating a dialogue between form and context.
The artist’s collaborations with Steir and LeWitt also enhanced her appreciation for the emotive potential of the simplest actions on paper. Characterized by gestural, seemingly spontaneous acts of mark-making, her own works push the limits of traditional drawing while maintaining a deep commitment to the discipline. More than drawings and paintings alone, the works represent ideas about drawing and painting. “If thought occupies space,” she writes, “the works give form to some sense of that fleeting placeness.””
The University Galleries at Texas State University | Joann Cole Mitte Building
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