Repeater
2020
Solo Exhibition, IS Projects
September 26 - November 2, 2020
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Artist Talk: Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 6pm EST
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Repeater is a solo exhibition by Amber Tutwiler that uses oil paint and mixed media on panel to describe the shifting tensions between knowing and forgetting. In this series, shapes of fabric and gestures of the hand emerge as amnesiac snippets of memory that vacillate between surface planes. Like an echo of a body and a place pulled outward from their origin, fragments of images repeat, scatter, and intersect. The handling of paint and the treatment of surface simulate printed photographs that have been redacted, collaged, and transposed. This trompe l’oeil preserves some element of intimate familiarity - even if the security of the recognizable is fleeting. Just as the folds of fabric rhythmically dance through each frame, the titles of each work, when read from left to right, act as poetic substrates to the body of work as a whole.
They say (go ahead),
Follow, repeater.
This belly traces time
In slow motion.
Cue the curtain,
Return the island,
With it closed,
We see the other side of the desert.
Planes and glass,
A performance, a mirage.
So many gaps,
No shadow can doubt,
We must be
Too close.
The inevitability of the ghost,
Of us, etc.
Sleep myself a love to calm.
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They say (go ahead), 2020
Oil on Panel
18 x 24 inches
![Follow, repeater]()
Follow, repeater, 2020
Oil on Panel
6 x 8 inches
![This belly traces time]()
This belly traces time, 2020
Oil and Micaceous Oxide on Panel
20.75 x 12 x 1 ½ inches
![In slow motion]()
In slow motion, 2020
Oil on Panel
18 x 24 inches
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Cue the curtain, 2020
Oil and Micaceous Oxide on Panel, Mat Board
6 x 8 inches
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Return the island, 2020
Oil and Micaceous Oxide on Panel, Mat Board
5 x 7 x 2 inches
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With it closed, 2020
Oil on Panel
5 x 5 inches
![We see the other side of the desert]()
We see the other side of the desert, 2020
Oil on Panel
22 x 16 inches
![Planes and glass]()
Planes and glass, 2020
Oil on Panel, Wallpaper
18 x 24 inches
![A performance, a mirage]()
A performance, a mirage, 2020
Oil on Panel
6 x 6 inches
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So many gaps, 2020
Oil on Panel
12 x 16inches
![No shadow can doubt]()
No shadow can doubt, 2020
Oil on Panel, Wallpaper
15 x 9 x 8 inches
![We must be]()
We must be, 2020
Oil on Panel
8 x 10 inches
![Too close]()
Too close, 2020
Oil on Panel
20 x 16 inches
![The inevitability of the ghost]()
The inevitability of the ghost, 2020
Oil and Micaceous Oxide on Panel, Mat Board, Acrylic Mirror
19 ½ x 15 ½ inches
![Of us, etc.]()
Of us, etc., 2020
Oil on Panel
12 x 6 inches
![Sleep myself a love to calm]()
Sleep myself a love to calm, 2019
Oil on Panel, Acrylic Mirror, Wallpaper
11 x 16 x 2 ½ inches