Caitlin Keogh
Knots Knot Knots
10 Jan – 15 Feb 2020
39 Walker

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Caitlin Keogh, Knots Knot Knots, Installation view, Bortolami, New York, NY, 2020

Bortolami is pleased to announce Knots Knot Knots, a group of new paintings and drawings by Caitlin Keogh. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery depicts language as a fragmentary and unresolved environment. In these pictures, a malleable ribbon or string is shown as a figure (noun), or it describes a condition, imposing (verb) on another figure. This ribbon or string is a materialization of the black line that is the primary descriptor of the artwork's visual language, looping through an incomplete alphabet, a book with no text, and a reader who cannot speak. The body is the site of processing this line, both literally and metaphorically. In the viewing room, the black line continues in decomposing technical drawings of flowers, framed between glass and mirror.

Works

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Ornamental Riband

Ornamental Riband, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Ribbons

Ribbons, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Embroidered Surface

Embroidered Surface, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Pearls

Pearls, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Legs

Legs, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Reading Figure

Reading Figure, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Legs

Legs, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Knots Knot Knots

Knots Knot Knots, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Pearls (Nocturne) Miniature

Pearls (Nocturne) Miniature, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Knots Knot Knots

Knots Knot Knots, 2020

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 1

Rose/Mirror 1, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 2

Rose/Mirror 2, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 3

Rose/Mirror 3, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 4

Rose/Mirror 4, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 5

Rose/Mirror 5, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Rose/Mirror 6

Rose/Mirror 6, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #8

Roses #8, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #4

Roses #4, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #6

Roses #6, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #5

Roses #5, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #14

Roses #14, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #2

Roses #2, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #13

Roses #13, 2019

Installation view of displayed artwork titled Roses #3

Roses #3, 2019