A new Dawn Clements (CRF 2013) exhibition, “Living Large: A Survey,” opens on May 1st and will be on view through July at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
“In her drawings Clements (1958-2018) depicts her immediate surroundings and architectural interiors from films. She works from direct observation and addresses issues of personal space and the portrayal of women in melodrama and film noir, all while pushing the boundaries of the medium of paper, creating works ranging in size from several inches to panoramas up to seventy-eight feet wide. Her process of folding, cutting, and gluing eventually distresses the paper, revealing the passage of time while giving the works a tactile and sculptural quality.” See more about the show here