Amanda Wojick | Small Shields and Other Shapes | Viewing Room
Installation View.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present Amanda Wojick’s Small Shields and Other Shapes featuring dynamic color gouache paintings and steel forms with paper material additions. Wojick’s practice intersects with sculpture, painting and collage and this new series of captivatingly indefinable shapes exemplify the progression of her abstract visual language.
Amanda Wojick, 18 individual gouache on paper, 12 x 9” paper each, 15 x 12” framed each
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Wojick creates multiple works concurrently in the studio pushing them to their material limits and reanimating them into new forms. Origami-inflected shapes made of thin steel connect with formal elements of intimately-sized gouache paintings and the artworks in both mediums emerge and shift like anthropomorphic objects. Imperfect circles, diamonds, and half-moons appear throughout the paintings and sculptures. Cut-out tabs extrude and peek open like tiny portals bursting from the solidity and their depth and shadows become part of the work. Tactile additions of torn paper fragments and crinkled mulberry paper enliven the surfaces in color palettes that range from rich, deep hues of cobalt blues and plums to vibrant yellows, and pastel pinks.
double panel, black, 2022 (detail)
Installation view.
Material scraps inside Wojick’s studio.
Material scraps inside Wojick’s studio.
Amanda Wojick, floor shape, 2022, steel and paint, 33.5 x 29"
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Amanda Wojick, single panel, radial, 2022, steel and paint, 36 x 26"
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Listen to Amanda Wojick's interview with KBOO’s Joseph Gallivan about her exhibition Small Shields and Other Shapes. May 5, 2022.
Gouache works on paper (detail)
SALEM LIBRARY, 2021
Wojick’s hand-painted steel sculpture,
Call Number Cascade, was commissioned by the city of Salem, OR in 2021 through the Half-a-Percent for Public Art Program.
Amanda Wojick, Call Number Cascade, 2021, welded steel with paint (powder coat, latex, acrylic), 12' x 20' x 1'
Learn more about the exhibition in this exclusive video interview with Amanda Wojick
