'Watershed III' (2022-23) by Mokha Laget -- THE REACH at the Kennedy Center (DC) September 2024 IMG_4416 copy : 無料・フリー素材/写真
'Watershed III' (2022-23) by Mokha Laget -- THE REACH at the Kennedy Center (DC) September 2024 IMG_4416 copy / Ron Cogswell
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| 説明 | Per The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts website:Mokha LagetWatershed III, 2022–2023oil on 7 canvas panels totaling 88 x 424On loan from the artistWatershed III is Mokha Laget’s largest wall piece, with seven shaped canvases painted in bright colors and rhythmically arranged in configurations that seem as if they could continue forever. Evoking architecture, the ambiguous shapes create an illusory environment where objects appear to jump forward or recede. Laget is fascinated by the lively geometric choreography of these visual maneuvers, with their enigmatic light sources and puzzling planes or volumes. She explores the psychology of perception and our relationship with truth, especially the liminal space between seeing and knowing, questioning and believing.The artist’s choice of the term “watershed” refers in part to the flow of water in a particular place, both above and below ground; its catchment has the power to connect places and people and to nourish life. Indeed, the Kennedy Center is located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed on the edge of the Potomac River, dedicated to cultural flow and nourishment.Laget continues to carve out a legacy far beyond her early brush with the Washington Color School and internalized art historical references, to give new life to the shaped canvas idiom. _______________________________________________Mokha Laget, born in Algeria, was first trained in old master painting techniques in southern France. After moving to Washington, DC in 1979, she studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design (BFA 82) during a prominent influence of the Washington Color School on American art. It was then that Washington artists took the lead nationally, as Morris Louis, Ken Noland, Gene Davis, Tom Downing, Sam Gilliam, and others blew through the angst of Abstract Expressionism to create a more optimistic, forward-looking direction for abstract painting, reflecting the youthful optimism of the new Kennedy administration. Laget absorbed this new, more open direction for her art.Laget served as studio assistant, and later estate assistant, for the celebrated Color School painter Gene Davis, becoming even more intimately connected to this dynamic abstract movement, while exploring her own directions.Laget also earned a degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in simultaneous French/English interpreting. She has spent much time in the last two decades translating for American and international organizations in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, expanding her global understanding of art and life with every experience. Even within this hugely broadened viewpoint, the qualities of color and light inspired by her youth in North Africa persist as signature elements of her art.Laget’s expansive exploration of abstraction has led to major gallery representations, museum and private acquisitions, and numerous exhibitions worldwide, including a large 2022 exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center at American University.Currently, Laget lives off-grid in the New Mexico mountains. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-09-23 16:33:05 |
| 撮影者 | Ron Cogswell , Arlington, Virginia, USA |
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| 撮影地 | The Vineyard (historical), Washington, D.C., United States 地図 |