{"id":338,"date":"2015-04-25T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T22:17:42","slug":"338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Lawless"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, Slightly Ajar<\/em>, Sharon Lawless’s second exhibition with the gallery, \u00a0she continues to use found materials \u2014 discarded packaging, paint samples, wrapping paper and altered pages from auction catalogs \u2014 in her manipulation of two modern traditions, collage and geometric abstraction as she explores the tension between accident and control and how this tension effects perception.\u00a0Lawless writes, \u201cI\u2019m attempting to engage the viewer by exploring spatial and color relationships, scale, the similarity between packaging and architecture, and the ways that manipulating visual logic can animate what we see.\u201d<\/p>\n

I like the altered perspectives, the faux textures, overlap, and created line in the compositions. In some, the use of the negative space is compelling.<\/p>\n

\"88, <\/a>
88, 2014 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Rectangles, <\/a>
Rectangles, 2013 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Anvil, <\/a>
Anvil, 2012 Collage on Paper <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mirror, <\/a>
Mirror, 2014 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"ELLI <\/a>
ELLI VER, 2015 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"om, <\/a>
om, 2013 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Circle <\/a>
Circle Master, 2014 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"CCC, <\/a>
CCC, 2015 Collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Her <\/a>
Her Diamonds…, 2013 Paper collage on museum board <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.roberthenrycontemporary.com\/exhibitions\/20150424-sharon-lawless-slightly-ajar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, Slightly Ajar, Sharon Lawless’s second exhibition with the gallery, \u00a0she continues to use found materials \u2014 discarded packaging, paint samples, wrapping paper and altered pages from auction catalogs \u2014 in her manipulation of two modern traditions, collage and geometric abstraction as she explores the tension between accident and control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ELLI_VER_2015_final.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.patriciarees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}