Betty Parsons

Sea Rock, 1979

Summer Snow, 1978

32 x 24 inches

Ladder, 1968

27 x 9.7/8 inches

Untitled

17 x 17 inches

Anna Miles suggested I take a look at Betty Parsons.  

Parsons was both an artist and dealer.  She had established her own gallery in New York and by the time Peggy Guggenheim closed her 'Art of this Century' gallery to return to Europe in 1947, her artists (which included Pollock and Rothko) were keen to be part of the Betty Parsons Gallery.  Parsons represented artists who were to become 'celebrities' in the art world.  But first and foremost her interest was in the new, the creative and the unknown.  (The New York Times)

The above assemblages are made from either driftwood or scraps of carpenter's fragments and remind me of my practice in my utilisation of cut-offs of wood from the 3d Lab.  Even though in the photos above they appear small and delicate, the measurements indicate otherwise.  They interest me for their playfulness and for their seemingly casual arrangement.  This creates a provisionality where they appear as puzzle pieces, ones that could be arranged in any order, still forming intriguing works with a raw energy.