Kim Pashko: Memos from the Vault
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
March 1 - 30, 2002
Kim Pashko may be best known for her series of sculptures and paintings that point up the formal elements of architecture and design as we run into it in our daily lives, from gift boxes to magazine-rack presentations, breaking these elements down into repeated units, invoking the language of minimalism and of geometric abstraction with vibrant color and variety.
In this new body of work she calls "Memos from the Vault," Kim Pashko trains her focus on the physical and psychological elements of the way we work, and in particular, the way SHE works, based on her experience of many years in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s bustling Registrar’s office. As Kim Pashko attends numerous meetings and engages in incessant phone conversations related to organizing and planning the travel paths of works in the MFA’s collection, she takes notes in the form of drawings, reflecting both the unconscious working of the creative mind, and the business-like details of getting a job done in the modern (art) world. As she reads architectural diagrams and makes plans for objects to travel to points she has never seen, and sets out the specifications for crates to contain and protect art from the world during its journey, Kim Pashko explores the intersection between her experiences with art as an artist and as an administrator. Her digital drawings and canvases explore the drawn line both as an expressive device and as a practical tool, while an array of tiny boxes -- once used to store precious coins -- have been transformed into the archivally-sound repository of the artist’s most intimate marks.
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