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Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces We Hold
Debut solo show at re.riddle: Isadora Gullov-Singh's acrylic-and-pastel paintings on memory, drawn from childhood in Italy with her father.
As a child in Rome, Isadora Gullov-Singh got to climb Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona on the days it was closed for cleaning. One painting here, When It Was Mine, is built from that memory: the heat of stone baking in the sun and the deep shadows in its carved crevices.
This is her debut solo show at re.riddle, new paintings about her father and the places in Italy they shared. Each starts as layered acrylic washes on raw, unprimed linen. She then rubs pastel into long freehand lines that follow the weave's irregularities, lets the pigment fall away and draws over it again. You step in close and the earlier marks still show through the later ones.
Entry is free. re.riddle is in suite 204 of Minnesota Street Project at 1275 Minnesota St in Dogpatch, open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, until 31 October.
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When It Was Mine
Look for the Fountain of the Four Rivers as a child's private climbing frame, painted as sun-hot stone and the deep shadows in the sculpted crevices.
Proximal Presence
A 48-inch-square canvas of the corner of Rome's Caffè della Pace, ivy cascading down its facade, where her father played chess every week while she waited.
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- Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces We HoldCourtesy of Minnesota Street Project
- Martin Venezky: Process WorkLetterform Archive
- Type for All! Ten Years of Type WestLetterform Archive
- Caguiat Delacruz: The TrampCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Minnesota Street ProjectPigeonChickenFish / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Letterform ArchiveClyde Charles Brown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtsMariwlqs / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0