Kristen Giorgi:Borrowed Light

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to present Borrowed Light, including new and recent paintings by Atlanta-based artist, Kristen Giorgi. As the exhibition title suggests, there is a temporal quality to the work, an insinuation of impermanence, or of moments caught between past and future. Giorgi’s paintings calibrate these tensions and linger at the threshold of these temporal shifts, as well as the real and the surreal, natural and the artificial.

Giorgi heightens this sense of of liminality through an ambiguation of space. Collapsing exterior and interior worlds, traces of landscapes, horizon lines, and celestial bodies, emerge from Giorgi’s painterly surface, overlaid with interior architectural forms. These spaces evoke the detached atmosphere of waiting rooms and corridors, yet Giorgi’s application of thin layers of paint and subtle tonal shifts negate a sterility. The works register as sites of transformation: open doorways offer new pathways, sunrises and sunsets posit the passing of time. Dismantling strict boundaries, Giorgi’s works reveal themselves in a continual unfolding.