VSF is proud to announce Seasonal Charts, a solo presentation of new works by Los Angeles-based artist, Dianna Molzan. Molzan joined VSF’s program earlier this year.
Molzan’s paintings draw attention to the materials of painting and the infinite possibilities contained within these simple traditional elements - paint, canvas, and wooden stretchers. Well known for her “string paintings,” composed on canvas that have been unraveled and transformed back into individual threads, stretched, painted, and cut into shape; Molzan also explores soft sculpture and larger site-specific interventions in her practice.
Molzan’s new works have transformed our &Milk space into a database of seasonal affect. Four new string paintings, each representing a bar graph in a different palette, present information, of a sort based on the seasons. Reflecting upon color as an immersive and richly meaningful material and as information, these new works hint at Molzan’s ongoing interest in the color field works of Verena Loewensberg and Josef Albers, as well as Claude Monet’s experimental series of repeating motifs. They share a common interest in reducing or limiting the given elements in order to create what Lowensberg called “Stimmung,” creating a mood through precise and varied color relationships.
The contrast between the emotional affect of the color schema Molzan creates for each season, and the strictures of information and data suggested by the bar-graph compositions yields a thoughtful tension in this moment of daily poll information around the presidential election.
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Dianna Molzan (b. 1972, Tacoma, WA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) explores sculptural approaches to painting that include classical materials such as paint, canvas, and wooden stretcher bars. She has had solo exhibitions at Whitney Museum of Art, New York; ICA Boston, Boston; Kaufman Repetto, Milan, New York; Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles; and Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA. Select group exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Lauren Gilten, New York; Adams and Ollman, Portland; Ratio 3, San Francisco; Rose Art Museum, Waltham; McCage Fine Art, Stockholm; and MAK Center, Los Angeles.
