11/16-12/29
Reykjavik native and Cleveland Institute of Art & Kent State graduate Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson creates some of the most fathomless work you will ever see. Her new monumental textiles on exhibition at William Busta through 12/29 are over 10 feet tall and twice that wide.
Inspired by the fissures, cracks and shifting geophysical plates observed in her volcanic Iceland, she hand-paints silk and weaves it into hauntingly beautiful hanging sheets that tremble and wobble, slightly out of focus. Fire, ice, water, shore, rocks, are her touchstones, but these elemental forces, hung in heavy membranes, forfeit their rigidity without losing their power. In her work, nothing is static.
She’s had solo exhibitions in New York Chicago and regularly in Reykjavik, and with Busta since 1997. She’s appeared in group shows in Miami, Northern Ireland, Barcelona and Fourmies-Trelon, France. She won the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist award from MOCA Cleveland, and was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize in 2008. Her work is in the collections of Agnes Gund, Toby Lewis and many corporations.
Stand in front of her work and sway.
http://www.WilliamBustaGallery.com
Watch the video interview at the exhibition opening: http://www.coolcleveland.com/2012/11/video-hildur-asgeirsdottir-jonsson-at-william-busta-gallery-1-of-5