Carmel Buckley

“Carmel Buckley New Work,” semantics gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2010

Solo exhibition

Within this exhibition I worked between practices of sculpture and drawing, with the two colliding into one another in subtle and unexpected ways.

Sometimes a drawing will become a sculpture, or inform a sculpture, and likewise a sculptural object may be used to create a silhouette drawing. Among the works exhibited were a found object (bucket) overflowing with a paper cutout (that had previously been a monoprint); a found object (potato ricer) centered on a piece of patterned cloth and a felt blanket with cutout circles that lay scattered around the remains of the blanket. The patterned cloth piece and the cut blanket sculptural piece connected to the drawings of small circles exhibited in the same space. The tiny circles of those drawings simultaneously become a scenic landscape that might be seen in the background of a nineteenth-century illustration. The circles were drawn repetitively over a number of weeks and although I attempted to treat them as a uniform screen, they captured the rhythm of making the work, the pen running out of ink and having to be replaced, and the accidental lack of focus and pressure of the pen on the paper.

The exhibition was reviewed by Steven Rosen, CityBeat, “Two Good Shows at Brighton Galleries, semantics gallery.”

An edited version of this work was also shown in Sculpture X at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Oh.