Maryann Strandell “Breezeway”
August 2021 (Long-term)
This new installation titled “Breeze Way”combines ink and acrylic drawing in situ with a series of oil paintings and 3D Lenticular media. The overall drawing is a classic 60s interior, a very retro living room with the TV screen centrally placed. The overall subject is one of comfort, a living space, not exotic but accessible. It’s gracious and welcoming and perhaps serves as a backdrop to our societal relationship to states of quarantine, and a place we demarcate as in between -with screen-time and dream-time.
The angles within the room, and the picture plane greatly reference modernist architectural feats, such as Mies“ Barcelona pavilion which was considered an, “ideal zone of tranquility”. Multiple artworks reference screen-tinm as worlds within worlds- a time capsule. In the installation they are comprised of historic architecture references, and other objects relating to the domicile, international trade memes, and travel.
