Clamped Eights
The Clamped Eights Series grew out of a series of formal/minimal pencil drawings combined with a series of engineered paper. For each piece, eight sheets of printed, die-cut drawings were stacked and held by an aluminum clamp. Parts of Clamped Eights pop up, weave, flare out, with the shadow as essential an element as the paper and clamp.
“These elegant works are the ideal context for the artist to produce an abstract, graphic language, as if each piece is its own unit that resists the specificity of serving as a letter or a word. Together, they read like a visual alphabet or lexicon that evades translation.” - Jennie Hirsh, from “Before and After Language: The Art of Madelin Coit”
Clamped Eights
Installation grid of twelve pieces:
Printed die cut paper, metal, shadow
6’ x 9’
2008