Marjorie Kaye
Artist Statement:
Taken Out of Context is a study of the relationship between my recent two dimensional paintings and three dimensional sculptures. My paintings see interrelationships between shapes along the surface, as if there were entities co-existing within the space. They encouraged three dimensional pieces that seemed to have jumped out of the surface, escaping from the confines of the second dimension.
My gouache paintings are built from the observation of complexity and my intention in actualizing sequential order. I need to work as if untying a complicated and seemingly impossible knot. The forms are immediately organic, swirling and undulating from one end of the surface from the other. Once this has been established, I go in honing, working each shape, dissecting it into its unique rhythm. This is the secondary aspect of making each work, and the action that ties the shapes into a whole, one that balances between energy and calculation.
These shapes are mirrored in the sculptures. Entities are born from shaped wood pieces, all coming together in a series of elemental creature-like formations. In opposition to the paintings, these sculptural forms are minimally painted, deriving any sense of complexity from the juxtaposition of individual pieces.
There is a dichotomy present in the works, from subtlety to complexity; iteration to minimalism. Together the works address the balance between two disciplines, and the singular worlds that arise from their interaction, as in a thought giving way to the crystallization of form.
Taken Out of Context is a study of the relationship between my recent two dimensional paintings and three dimensional sculptures. My paintings see interrelationships between shapes along the surface, as if there were entities co-existing within the space. They encouraged three dimensional pieces that seemed to have jumped out of the surface, escaping from the confines of the second dimension.
My gouache paintings are built from the observation of complexity and my intention in actualizing sequential order. I need to work as if untying a complicated and seemingly impossible knot. The forms are immediately organic, swirling and undulating from one end of the surface from the other. Once this has been established, I go in honing, working each shape, dissecting it into its unique rhythm. This is the secondary aspect of making each work, and the action that ties the shapes into a whole, one that balances between energy and calculation.
These shapes are mirrored in the sculptures. Entities are born from shaped wood pieces, all coming together in a series of elemental creature-like formations. In opposition to the paintings, these sculptural forms are minimally painted, deriving any sense of complexity from the juxtaposition of individual pieces.
There is a dichotomy present in the works, from subtlety to complexity; iteration to minimalism. Together the works address the balance between two disciplines, and the singular worlds that arise from their interaction, as in a thought giving way to the crystallization of form.
Artist Bio:
Marjorie Kaye has lived in the Boston area for most of her life, with stops along the way in Syracuse, NY to earn her BFA in Painting, as well as New York City in the 80s.
She is a sculptor with experience in drawing and painting as well. Her work has been an exploration of opposites: form and color; organic and geometric; precision and chaos. Colorful and bold, her sculpture and present gouache paintings are kinetic and energetic. Her work has been reviewed in many publications including the Boston Globe and ArtScope Magazine, and has been shown extensively both locally and nationally, including Galatea Fine Art in Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, and Space Womb Gallery in NYC.
Ms. Kaye is the founder/member/Director Emeritus of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, a large artist-run gallery featuring over 50 artists from Boston and beyond. Past projects also include the web-based Caladan Gallery, which ran for 10 years and exhibited hundreds of artists from all over the world, and Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA , which enhanced the community with the exhibition of local, national, and international artists.
She currently resides in Cambridge, MA.
Marjorie Kaye has lived in the Boston area for most of her life, with stops along the way in Syracuse, NY to earn her BFA in Painting, as well as New York City in the 80s.
She is a sculptor with experience in drawing and painting as well. Her work has been an exploration of opposites: form and color; organic and geometric; precision and chaos. Colorful and bold, her sculpture and present gouache paintings are kinetic and energetic. Her work has been reviewed in many publications including the Boston Globe and ArtScope Magazine, and has been shown extensively both locally and nationally, including Galatea Fine Art in Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston, Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, and Space Womb Gallery in NYC.
Ms. Kaye is the founder/member/Director Emeritus of Galatea Fine Art in Boston, MA, a large artist-run gallery featuring over 50 artists from Boston and beyond. Past projects also include the web-based Caladan Gallery, which ran for 10 years and exhibited hundreds of artists from all over the world, and Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA , which enhanced the community with the exhibition of local, national, and international artists.
She currently resides in Cambridge, MA.
