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| Camey McGilvray, Boogie-Woogie Dancers, Powder-coated rebar, 70 x 24 x 18" |
Artistic concepts are taken down to the wire in artist Camey McGilvray’s latest series,
Wire World. In this series of McGilvray’s work, hard-edge rules and line is everything. Starting with the first pen and ink rendering of an idea, McGilvray works and reworks, edits and polishes until the desired effect is achieved. Visual references are simplified and in some cases totally abandoned. Line is then translated into steel wire, welded and powder-coated into a three-dimensional existence.
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| Camey McGilvray, The Ladies (Picasso Homage), Powder-coated steel, 54 x 48 x 3" |
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McGilvray’s
The Ladies, homage to Pablo Picasso’s
Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, is scaled down to essential lines but succeeds in expressing the integrity and concept of the original piece.
Wire World functions and exists in this way, further abstracting the abstracted and offering a stripping down to the bare essentials.
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| Camey McGilvray, Wired IV, Powder-coated steel, 68 x 46 x 3" |
McGilvray skillfully uses the visual language of line to give life to what was once only imagined and to indeed create a
Wire World.
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| Camey McGilvray, Rush Hour, Powder-coated rebar, LED, 70 x 38 x 4" |
The show runs through November 17.
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 10th, 3 PM
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