This exhibition by black includes both new and existing works by the artist. Black’s main focus when producing work is her use of materials only for their athletic qualities not having a focus on any meaning that the objects and materials that she uses within her work as it is purely aesthetic.
Materials for making work range from the conventional paint, charcoal and paper mashe to using makeup products achieving gel like marks that you wouldn’t get with more conventional art materials.
Black’s abstract style explores the way children make art the messy and care free style that they have of their first drawings and paintings and the marks that they make. Black says that this creates links and connections to her style and artworks that she has made and continues to make.
Black’s main focus when making work isn’t about what the end result or artwork is going to look like how how it may be presented to the public, it’s all about the play and exploration that comes along with making artworks like this.
Whilst at the exhibition I was particularly drawn to Black’s mirrors where she had applied a gel like substance I think it might have been Vaseline or some specialist paint although I am unsure. The way it was still transparent and you could see through to the mirrors surface was really interesting to me and made me think of the structure of materials we use as artists.
