Rachel K. Bury
Through these painterly sculptures, I seek to create an awareness
of the in-between space, a space of difference and sameness,
of experience, and of passage. I am interested in creating shifts
between abstraction and perception, putting a seemingly familiar
experience in an invented scape.
Inspired by the alternative realities found in science-fiction film
and literature, I work in reverse on clear plastic, layering paint to
create abstracted two-dimensional images that I then transform
into three-dimensional, structural paintings. By abstracting the
picture plane into individual curved “tubes” that are then joined
back together to create a volumetric image, I create a model of
what could possibly be.
While the structural component creates dimensionality, the onepoint
perspective conveys a sense of movement and space. This
illusion of space, widely used during the Renaissance, becomes
altered through the curve of each tube. By utilizing one pointperspective
to create images of corridors, I investigate the
transitional experience of moving through that space, traversing
it from point A to point B.