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Banker
New Work
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 © Amy Banker 2007 Cleopatra Acrylic on Canvas 40" x 30" $ 5,000 |
Her work illuminates how poetry and painting, by opening up fields for shifting significations, share the capacity for representation and abstraction. Bringing together the visual and the verba, Banker's canvases are not about the constitution of meaning, but about the construction of webs of reminiscenscences-they only imply, and never directly signify, the literary allusions of their titles. Sequences, mostly in the form of loosely built thematic groups, have always featured in Banker's art, yet her most recent paintings introduce a new aspect of seriality: each and every work on view arises on a 30-by-40 inch canvas.
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