through June 2nd 2011
Meredyth Sparks' densely layered collage paintings are uncanny formalist inventions existing somewhere between figuration and abstraction. Her practice is resolutely formalist and informed by a dizzying array of sources within radical politics and music and the art historical avant-garde. Sparks' exhibition at VW - the artist's first solo exhibition in Berlin - presents an ambitious, entirely new body of work emphasizing her interests in Surrealism, popular music and the mundane decorative and functional elements of our domestic lives. Central to the exhibition are the artist's "extractions" - digitally printed paintings and compositions stitched together from photographs and patterned fabrics - which reconfigure pre-existing visual material to create a new image, a previously unknown visual space. Also on view are several new sculptures employing the concept of the ready-made as a source for abstract form.
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