Jacqueline Surdell (formerly) likens her process of looping and knotting to painting. She thought an interwoven fiber line was a gesture that could surging and swelling across the canvas.
Surdell is a lifelong athlete, strides towards demanding body practice, and her body usually turns into a shuttle bus when she weaves an oversized loom from the elevator. The huge steel bar stretches over 20 feet wide, holding a large composition of produced industrial nylon and cotton threads, created by the artist through repeated movements, which is different from the commemorative activities of competitive training.
Surdell incorporates a range of influences into her latest work in Secret | Chicago’s Beaches. For her solo exhibition, Convert: Rings, Cracked and Forest Archivesartists take transformation and reverence as their starting point. In particular, she draws on what she calls “cosmic connections” with her great uncle Paul, who shared her birthday with her and died in the Forest area during the uproar war.
Linking nature to narrative, artists also revolve around Catholic growth and the background of the Bible, especially with the places of epiphany. She considers the forest as the “sacred threshold”, in which her vibrant work becomes the gateway to the sacred. “Far-view forests are very different from forest paintings,” she shared in a video interview.
Printed polyester fabrics appear several times in this new work. Photographed snapshots of the sun are played through the lush forest canopy, enhancing the dark “leaf”, while “Paul” features vivid sunsets. Nature, for Surdell, is not passive. Instead, it is an active participant in maintaining collective memory and transcending the website.
Convert It lasts until November 15th. Find more information about Surdell from Instagram.
