Works > Frayed Canvas

Ascent
Raw Frayed Canvas
1'x12'x12'
2011
Thread
Single Warp of Raw Canvas
21"
2011
Thread (Detail)
Single Warp of Raw Canvas
2011
She/He
Frayed Raw Canvas
65"x14"
2011
Cocoon
Warps of Raw Canvas
2'x2'x12'
2011
Cocoon (detail)
Warps of Raw Canvas
2011
Inside
Frayed Raw Canvas
11"x11"x12'
2011
outside
Frayed Raw Canvas
3'x3'x12'
2011
You
Acrylic on Frayed Canvas
46"x6"
2011
Shams(Sun)
Acylic on Frayed Canvas and Pin
7"x7"x5"
2012
Feather
Clear Gesso on Frayed Canvas
4"x13"
2011
Girl on the Upper Deck
Pencil and Oil on Frayed Canvas
108"x54"
2011

ASCENT, Solo Exhibition by Bolt 2011-2012 Resident Homa Shojaie at Bolt Project Space, January 2012, Chicago


Homa Shojaie presents ASCENT, an installation that investigates the material space of canvas to explore archetypal personas. Shojaie's new work creates a meditative space that builds on the potential of canvas while metaphorically referencing the body. As the warps and the wefts of the raw canvas are methodically peeled away, layers of meaning reveal the subject's emotional landscape. Hovering on the edges of painting, architecture, sculpture and text, Shojaie's installation references a zone that never fully attaches itself to any one discipline. Instead, ASCENT is continuously shifting, carefully diffusing the boundary of the threads found in the frayed canvas, simultaneously revealing everything and nothing.