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Grey Arch at Night in Red Light I Aschely Vaughan Cone
$2,800
With minimal compositions, Aschely's paintings offer visual play and a quiet moment of contemplation with shapes that join, underpin, obfuscate, reveal, and determine each other.
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With a minimal but, at times, active surface, this painting offers a quiet moment of contemplation and play; it is about things that can be two things at once, and whose relationships might be seen to shift over time. It relies heavily on figure/ground reversal - where a shape we may have deemed to be "figure" transforms to reading as "ground" in another moment of viewing. Throughout, shapes join with, underpin, obfuscate, reveal and determine each other. In this shifting landscape of continued visual play and slippage, one might find a sustained meditation on perception and relationships in general. This painting is meant to be a bit hard to see, as if you are seeing through something - in this case darkness. This allows more ambiguity to remain in the viewing experience - for things to keep shifting and for edges to be softened perceptually - even if they are hard in reality. This work emphasizes a matte black surface that is intended to read as "ground". Materially speaking, we are meant to understand this to be the most primary surface, underneath all the other parts of the image. On top of that two shapes have been "placed". As these applied shapes structure what was otherwise the matte black ground, the arch emerges as a nameable form. Yet the close tonal range and darkness of the image allows for a kind of ambiguity to remain throughout the viewing experience.
About the Artist
Aschely Vaughan Cone is an artist interested in patterning, asymmetry, doubling, game boards and things that are two things at once.
News and
Notables
- Solo exhibition, Doublets, at Gotham West, 2021
- Artist in Residence at Skowhegan, 2016
- Hamiltonian Gallery Fellow, 2016
