Sophie Aston “A Series of Interruptions” Studio Vendome Projects - 28 Grand Street, New York, NY
April 23 – May 31, 2014 Opening Reception April 23, 6-8 pm

“A Series of Interruptions,”British artist Sophie Aston’s first New York exhibition, will be on view at Studio Vendome Projects, 28 Grand Street, from April 23-May 31, 2014. The opening reception will be held on the Wednesday April 23 from 6:00pm–8:00pm.  

The twenty collages in “A Series of Interruptions” are composed of images clipped from copies of vintage Better Homes and Gardens from the 1950s through the early 1960s. By carefully disrupting the magazine’s occupied domestic interiors with her own flat painted surfaces, Aston directly addresses the tension between abstraction and representation. In transforming these interiors she engages the viewer but quickly thwarts their search for a legible space that makes sense. By so doing she draws our attention toward the discomfort we feel when left adrift in uncertainty. At the same time that she engages the viewer in her paradoxical picture space she says that she is presenting “an odd emptiness and an odd inaccessibility because it asks what painting is supposed to be doing now.”  

About Sophie Aston

Sophie Aston studied art in Great Britain and lives in the United States. She has exhibited her paintings since 1995. Aston is the co-founder of the Glasgow Independent Studio and has taught at several universities including The London Metropolitan University and the University of The Arts. In 2011, she was an artist-in-residence at The Vermont Studio Center.  

“A Series of Interruptions” is are part of the unprecedented “Rediscovered Masters” series curated by art historian and art reference publisher Peter Hastings Falk. In 2013, Aston was elected by Rediscovered Masters’ Art Advisory Board, which is composed of distinguished museum directors, curators, historians, and critics.

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