Jennifer Guidi’s art is proof that you should never discourage your kids from finger-painting, it could turn into a whole career. She makes these big works by covering coloured canvases with thick layers of cement-like sand, then digging her fingers in to create spiralling indentations, all emanating from a single spot. Guidi might use tools, but it’s the tactile nature of the work that comes across.
The opening room is all black paintings, the dark sand gouged away to reveal little lines of colour. Upstairs the sand is purple, yellow and pink instead – going from the first room into this one feels like going from the night to the dawn. The final piece in the basement is bright yellow – full noon.
Guidi’s work is elemental and old fashioned – totally and purely decorative – but something about that feels almost refreshing, like waking up to a new day...or something.
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