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David Peter Francis is pleased to present Ballads, a two-person exhibition with New York City and Texas Hill Country based artist Ada Friedman and the poet Helen Adam (1909-1993), who is known for popularizing incantation in American poetry. The exhibition opens with Friedman’s series Performance Proposals, Helen Rides 7: Wing and Wheel Paintings and collages by Adam. These collages may have aided Adam in creating her dark atmospheric mystical writing, poems that have helped Friedman’s visual worldmaking for over five years.
Boundary-lines are irrelevant in Friedman’s alive studio. Friedman’s paintings are “palimpsests of the process itself” and are made through archival and material research and personal everyday encounters – journal writing, observations of light changing, collected objects traced, a headband rendered. Layers of mark-making, language, and studio-accumulation, her paintings topologically build upon themselves and simultaneously become a score for a play. Her…
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David Peter Francis is pleased to present Ballads, a two-person exhibition with New York City and Texas Hill Country based artist Ada Friedman and the poet Helen Adam (1909-1993), who is known for popularizing incantation in American poetry. The exhibition opens with Friedman’s series Performance Proposals, Helen Rides 7: Wing and Wheel Paintings and collages by Adam. These collages may have aided Adam in creating her dark atmospheric mystical writing, poems that have helped Friedman’s visual worldmaking for over five years.
Boundary-lines are irrelevant in Friedman’s alive studio. Friedman’s paintings are “palimpsests of the process itself” and are made through archival and material research and personal everyday encounters – journal writing, observations of light changing, collected objects traced, a headband rendered. Layers of mark-making, language, and studio-accumulation, her paintings topologically build upon themselves and simultaneously become a score for a play. Her…
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