About this artwork
This large work fills and dominates the specified space it is created in. Comprising a variety of materials typical to Black’s work, the sculpture’s fragility contrasts to its commanding nature. The subtle pink colour is created with crushed children’s chalk, which, when combined with crisp white plaster and billowing polythene sheets, creates a sense of both movement and tranquillity. With its deliberate edges the work moves away from being purely gestural to demonstrate Black’s definitive decision-making process. Black’s intentionally evocative titles, such as Contact Isn’t Lost, highlight her belief that language occupies a secondary role in comparison to the work itself and the effect it has on the viewer.
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artist:Karla BlackScottish (born 1972)
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title:Contact Isn't Lost
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date created:2008
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materials:Plaster powder, polythene, chalk dust, chalk
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measurements:28.00 x 724.00 x 450.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased with the Iain Paul Fund 2009
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accession number:GMA 5084
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Karla Black
Karla Black
Karla Black’s work operates in an area of uncertainty, where things are 'only just' and deliberately ambivalent. Full of contrasts, her abstract sculptures are both commanding, often occupying the whole gallery space, and extremely fragile. Her work is informed by psychoanalysis and feminism...