Indianna Solnick, Catch
25 November - 16 December 2023
Catch explores the fence, border, and enclosement in our built landscape.
In new painting installations, signs and signals collide with punctuation motifs to activate a language of landscape. Here Solnick contemplates, through an unfolding of the painting surface into passageways and fences, the forms that echo her walks and explorations, gently questioning the structure of the urban landscape.
“Landscape has all the features of language. It contains the equivalent of words and parts of speech — pattern of shape, structure, material, formation, and function”. — Anne Whiston Spirn
Solnick’s practice is concerned with a storytelling of land and lived spaces, tracking patterns in the structuring and infrastructure of our environments. These stories are told partly through material choices and partly through form, diagram and narrative. Surfaces are built from composites of paper, continually dismantled and rebuilt. Paintings expand from the wall, wrapping and spiralling to form interior voids, enclosures and passageways.
Indianna Solnick is a recent graduate from MFA Slade School of Art in 2023 and from BA Wimbledon College of Art 2017. Early exhibitions, amongst others, include Total Straw, Parkhouse Street Studios, 2023; At The Edge Of Safehouse, Safehouse1, London, 2022; Grasswork, Gallery No.32, London, 2021 and Wish You Were Here, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, 2021. Solnick was a recipient of the Haworth Scholarship for Painting 2021-2023 and the Retreat Prize 2017.
Opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 6 pm or by appointment
No Show Space, 39 Temple Street, London E2 6QQ
For further information please email tina@noshowspace.com
12 monoprints by Indianna Solnick are for sale as a fundraiser for this exhibition, with 100% of the sale going to Solnick for production costs.
Catch 1-12, 2023
Original mono print in series of 12
Intaglio ink, Somerset Satin Paper, 200 gsm
Approx paper size 190 x 290 mm
£100
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Payment is via bank transfer or PayPal. Free to collect from No Show Space or Indianna Solnick. Plus £5 for UK delivery.
“Monoprinting is an umbrella term for techniques of relief printmaking which produce on a single unique print. I have fine-tuned a painterly technique which I use within my practice, where I paint onto a metal plate using intaglio ink. The plate is then run through an etching press onto soaked paper similarly to the etching process. The slightly damp paper under the pressure of the press is able to pick up fine brush work and textures in a different way to direct painting and also a beautiful vibrancy from the pigments.”
Indianna Solnick