Zoe Argires

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1. Numerals III, 2018 | Oil on canvas | 52x65.75 in

Looking At A Painting, Drinking Coffee Betwixt The Echelons (Girl With Blue Hair III), 2018 | Oil paint on canvas | 60 x 72 i

Looking At A Painting, Drinking Coffee Betwixt The Echelons (Girl With Blue Hair III), 2018 | Oil paint on canvas | 60 x 72 i

What Are You Looking At, 2018 | oil paint and airbrush on canvas | 24x36 in

Steel Stack Arch, 2018 | Steel | 1.5x6.5.5 in

Candy Stack (Julia), 2018 | Candy | 2.5x5.5.5 in

Stack Symbols for Tiles S2, 2018 | 3D-Printed PLA | 24 pieces at approximately 1x1/2 in

Untitled (Shadow Series on Paper), 2017 | Enamel on paper | 10 at 8x8 in

Artist Statement

I. My paintings and drawings combine figuration and abstraction to arrive at moment of fluency and precision. The works reference memory and a non-physical thought space, and have a distinctly diagrammatic nature.

II. Layers of leaps and failures give my works a rough texture. I discover characters and motifs through my process of finding and deconstructing gestures and movements in paint. I repeat symbols throughout multiple paintings, drawings, and sculptures, to form a concrete narrative throughout media.

III. Stack forms are the units I draw and sculpt, which to me embody order, gravity, and growth over time. They are the bodily, biomorphic things which live and grow across all tenants of my practice. The stacks have grown from scribbling circles and loops on paper, into concrete objects.

IV. Fabricated in over 10 different material iterations so far, my Stack Arch sculptures synthesize the information of the mediums into each unit, to create an expansive material alphabet. The alphabet is an idea which permeates my work at all levels, from the way I draw and find forms, to how I present my work. V. I express forms in a systematic way that resonates with language, science, and numbers, but is soft, having been located through intuitive processes. The stack arches stand sporadically on the floor, or sometimes on the top ledge of a painting. They act as energetic totems in my studio space, giving me balance.

VI. The content and drive in my work stems from emotional origins, whose pointed details are not necessary for to the viewer to find the characters in my work, and understand their omnipresent identities.