July 2011 / Defornament
Derrick Jefferies
Color Block, 2011
Archival inkjet print
Amanda Manitach
Meat and Flour, 2011
Graphite on paper
Ellen Garvens
Brancusi, 2011
Archival inkjet print
Derrick Jefferies
Amanda Manitach
Ellen Garvens
Defornament
July 06 – 30, 2011
Reception / Thursday, July 07, 5–8pm
Gallery Talk / Saturday, July 09, 2pm
Defornament presents three artists whose work address corporeality, ornamentation, and transformation of commonplace into the extra-ordinary. Objects and images shift into visual uncertainty and liminality through cloaking, cropping, layering and piling, the familiar becoming unrecognizable.
Derrick Jefferies’ new photographic and sculptural works are inspired by luxe forms found in the mineral world, appropriating readily found materials to create semi-precious knock-offs.
Amanda Manitach’s new installation of drawings emphasize rhythmic blotting and an interruption of rocaille excess.
Ellen Garvens’ photographic treatments use isolation and an absence of the total figure to meditate on the sensuousness of the ordinary.
Derfornament explores the space between material reality and illusion, repulsion and attraction, clarity and obscurity.
Press for Defornament:
Editor’s Pick: Amanda Manitach, Ellen Garvens and Derrick Jefferies
Seattle Magazine, June 2011.