1349 Main Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
RICK MALLETTE and KELLY JO ASBURY
"Appetites"
September 29 - October 15, 2006
ARTIST STATEMENT
These
silhouette drawings are the result of a decade-long search for new approaches
to drawing. “Drawn" with flat black house paint onto white
square panels, the drawings appear deliberate, but are found by improvisation. Beginning
with smaller forms and lines, the shapes combine and lines thicken until an
optical echo is achieved, a balance between black and white. On
the simplest level they are visual illusions where a black foreground and white
background optically flip-flop, the space becomes form and the form space. They
refer to cut-paper crafts especially silhouette portraits. The
high contrast graphic technique gives the drawings an overall air of
classiness, but upon closer inspection is betrayed by the cartoonish subject
matter. This
latest work comes on the heels of 1000's of sketchbook drawings, a couple dozen
temporary spontaneous ink wall drawings, a series of cut-mylar
"drawings", a couple invisible wall drawings, several photo wallpaper
drawings and a few silhouette wall drawings.





INVENTORY
1. The Couple (2005) Ink on Wood 48 x 84 inches
2. Portrait #12 (2006) Latex on Wood 48 x 48 inches
3. Portrait #10 (2006) Latex on Wood 48 x 48 inches
4. Portrait #11 (2005) Latex on Wood 48 x 48 inches
5. Portrait #13 (2006) Latex on Wood 36 x 36 inches
6. Pink Portrait (2005) Latex on Wood. 48 x 48 inches
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