- Venue
- gallery/ten
- Starts
- Thursday, November 7, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, November 30, 2013
- Address
- first floor, 23 Windsor Pl, Cardiff CF10 3BY
- Location
- Wales
gallery/ten presents a solo exhibition by artist Ruth Mclees. Mclees graduated from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2004 + has since widely exhibited her vibrant portraits throughout the uk. ‘Chroma Utopia’ is a body of 27 new works which showcase Mclees’ latest experimentation into the crossover of art + science. Mclees’ fascination with layering – that of placing transparent glazes over the surface of a painting – has become the recognisable signature of her practice. This recent collection of work sees a natural progression to mclees’ portraits, where glazes, resin + glues skilfully interact with the image underneath, serving to highlight + reveal the painted figure Inspired by the work of the 19th century German analytical chemist, F.F. Runge, Mclees transformed her studio into a laboratory in order to explore the artistic potential of industrial + scientific materials. The results emerging from this experimentation are presented here in a series of colourful, jewel-like paintings, where pigments are separated into their pure components to create chromatic glazes from which utopian figures emerge; ‘perfect colour + perfect beauty are united’
