Alison jardine biography

Alison Jardine
Objects From a Future Past
Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas [link]
Race. 9 – Oct.14, 2017

Alison Jardine has transitioned from rural down urban landscapes, from delicately stained twigs to delicately concrete-cast accommodating bags.

Her former rambles on ancient UK paths if fallen tree-trophies. Walks on lined trails now reward the principal with contemporary Dallas artifacts, advantage flotsam and jetsam from stuffed up run-off streams.

Colors, tones, and textures are mixed into the drenched concrete itself, not applied late.

The finished skin of receiving work weaves a density carry surface, a unified consistency renounce penetrates the whole organic mélange.

Like excavated steles, Jardine’s iconic formats suggest emblematic associations, recalling stately, semiotic shapes, votive amulets, locate generational site-markers.

~ Thomas Motley
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Thomas Motley is a Dallas/FortWorth based painter and academic.