Pallavi Sen

October 6 – November 12, 2023

Abby Flanagan & Mariko Makino: Light Trail

October 6 – November 12, 2023

Beverly Acha, Annie Bielski,
Odessa Straub

AUGUST 5 – SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

ARTISTS

Michael Cuadrado

Rina Goldfield

Installation view, At Finger’s End, works by Michael Cuadrado and Rina Goldfield

At Finger’s End foregrounds Michael Cuadrado’s and Rina Goldfield’s explorations of how we visualize, concretize, and represent immaterial and vast abstract systems and lived experiences. The show’s title is a reference to a line in an Emily Dickinson poem, “At my finger’s end,” paraphrased and recontextualized by Amy Sillman in the artist’s 2020 essay “Notes on the Diagram” published in The Paris Review: “At finger’s end, beyond the graph, off the chart, in the realm of not-knowing, lay the weird unformed excess, the chora, not information.” Goldfield’s and Cuadrado’s work emerges from this space of improvisation and unknowns.

Installation view, At Finger’s End, works by Michael Cuadrado.

Often immersed in archival research, Goldfield explores processes of reading, learning, and retaining information in her “book paintings” and works on paper. She embraces chance, using marbling to drive her application of color—a technique long used in bookmaking to adorn (and differentiate) book covers and endpapers.

Installation view, At Finger’s End, works by Michael Cuadrado and Rina Goldfield

Cuadrado considers longing, desire, love, compatibility, and heartbreak in new paintings driven by a penchant for astrology, mysticism, and science. Each artist inserts indices of the human body: Goldfield, for example, reproduces signs of wear from use on her painted book pages while Cuadrado often includes signs of his own shadow in his compositions. Grids also appear in both artists’ work as ways to systematize and quantify the infinite, bending and curving as our systemic approaches to symbol and space break down.