Maggee DayPassing Notes
Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Passing Notes, an exhibition of new paintings by Maggee Day. Over the past year, Day has developed a daily practice of drawing, making quick sketches of whatever catches her attention: a pile of toys, objects left on a table after friends have gone home, containers gathered while starting a garden. These drawings are casual records of everyday life, but they become the starting point for something much more expansive in the paintings.
Working from her sketchbooks, Day brings her observations together on a single canvas. One drawing may overlap another; an object may appear clearly in one area and disappear beneath paint somewhere else. As the paintings develop, the original subjects become increasingly difficult to identify. What began as a still life suddenly begins to tip into abstraction. A recognizable shape might become a burst of colour or a sweeping gesture. The paintings seem to shift as you look at them, moving back and forth between the familiar and the unknown.
For more information or a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com
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Maggee DayStudio Interior
Maggee DayStudio Interior
Maggee Day 的画作记录了她在唐人街工作室工作时不断变化的经历。散落的颜料罐、工作室的椅子、建筑的细节以及从窗外看到的含苞待放的树木，都通过一个生成的过程出现在她的画布上，展现出意想不到的角度和新的观察方式。她同时在多块画布上进行创作，让每一层都随着时间的推移逐渐干透，然后以全新的视角重新回到画布上。通过这种渐进的分层，她的画作提供了对同一空间的不同观察，创造了一个变化的视觉历史--影子在延伸，物体在重新排列，光线微妙地改变了对形式的感知。
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Maggee DayCriss-Crossing
Maggee Day’s works are notable for a sense of freedom, cultivated by the space outside of the canvas as much as what is in and on the paintings’ surfaces. Compelled by the architecture, streetscape, and views observed from her studio and home, the ingresses to Day’s spaces—windows and doorways—are the foundation of her recent bodies of work. Her choice of the familiar as the fundamental site of her study allows for a more experimental yet detailed exploration of materials and processes, and while her paintings appear as abstractions, they are in fact drawn from her surroundings. She explains: “Placing parameters on my work has been the opposite of restricting, it has encouraged new ways of thinking or creating.” Her paintings serve as a type of visual archive, responding to changes in the city, its seasons, and environments, with each painting beginning anew in response to ever-changing external stimulus.
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Maggee Day, Mulled, 2023
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Maggee Day, Crown, 2023
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Maggee Day, Crossroad, 2023
Maggee Day, Crossroad, 2023
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Maggee Day, Bucket, 2023
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Maggee Day, Lattice, 2023
Maggee Day, Lattice, 2023
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Maggee Day, Hanger, 2023
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Maggee Day, Shuffle, 2023
Maggee Day, Shuffle, 2023
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