Vox Populi Gallery. 319 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107

Eva Wylie

I use ornamentation as a pictorial language. By depicting the ornamental on the surface in a spatial context, I am able to integrate the decorative into the visual language of the piece. The depicted ornament always brings its own history with it, and this is not identical with the way it is portrayed. The object is integrated into a collection and that is what is seen and understood. The interaction between the singular image depicted and the picture that is produced as a whole is often very different. The ornament becomes the organizing structure that holds the work together. When the image does emerge from its framework as the last refuge of spatial illusionism, what is left is an image that flaunts its flatness and the viewer becomes aware of the space and context of the work. There is a heightened perceptual and conceptual understanding of the configuration of the framework. I am interested in the field of tension between the figuration and the surface arrangement.

The nature of the web and its connections is another point of interest. The web becomes a system of arranging but also a place where there is differentiation between the system and form. The pictorial language with the visible material quality of the work develops into an intense dialogue between the images, their physical support and configuration, and the inherent language of materials. The eventual and inevitable collapse of the system, including the physical structure or the object itself, creates the flux that is at the core of the work. As a whole, the work delivers as much as possible without breaking the essential connections that would cause the system to collapse in on itself.website

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