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Karla Black - ENCOUNTERS: COVA MACÍAS
This autumn Modern Art Oxford presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition to date of work by Glasgow-based artist Karla Black. Black has come to public prominence in recent years with her expansive floor-based and hanging sculptures created from materials that suggest both a sensory recollection of childhood: powder-paint, crushed chalk and sugar paper; and a distinct feminine association: lipstick, nail varnish and body cream. Working in response to the given space, Black often combines large blocks of colour created from her particular choice of materials: chalk dust mixed with plaster and slabs of Vaseline coloured with acrylic paint, with those that are barely visible to the naked eye: cellophane and cling film. The artist's use of cosmetic products and the processes of her art-making viscerally evokes the 'body...
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This autumn Modern Art Oxford presents the most comprehensive UK exhibition to date of work by Glasgow-based artist Karla Black. Black has come to public prominence in recent years with her expansive floor-based and hanging sculptures created from materials that suggest both a sensory recollection of childhood: powder-paint, crushed chalk and sugar paper; and a distinct feminine association: lipstick, nail varnish and body cream.
Working in response to the given space, Black often combines large blocks of colour created from her particular choice of materials: chalk dust mixed with plaster and slabs of Vaseline coloured with acrylic paint, with those that are barely visible to the naked eye: cellophane and cling film. The artist's use of cosmetic products and the processes of her art-making viscerally evokes the 'body...