Almond Zigmund: Flight Patterns

From March 16 through April 24, 2005, The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present an exhibition of wall installations and related drawings by East End resident Almond Zigmund.

Zigmund’s work is inspired by her longstanding interest in pattern and decorative elements in vernacular architecture and the psychological and theatrical impact of private and public space. After appropriating architectural and textile patterns she finds in her travels, Zigmund modifies them to create silhouetted forms in bold colors that she uses to articulate space on the surface of a wall or on a white sheet of paper. In both cases the artist employs a flocking technique in which finely cut, powdery particles of fiber are adhered to a surface to produce a raised, velvety texture. Her compositions often involve intersecting planes that invite the viewer into a suggested opening. In some works the implied path is then thwarted or redirected by another perspectival reference, or even by the reassertion of the flat picture plane on which the work is created.

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