FAB Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition by artist Yvette Cummings. The exhibition will be on view January 20th-February 12th. Please join us for this exciting event!
Yvette Cummings received her BFA in painting for Kendall College of Art and Design and MFA in painting from the University of Cincinnati. Currently, she is an instructor at the University of South Carolina.
Yvette Cummings’s large-scale paintings investigate the boundaries between recognition and meaning. Overlap, scale-shifts, and juxtaposition are employed in many of her compositions to dizzying effect. Life-size figures and monumental objects inhabit compositions appropriated from historical sources.
“My current body of work,” says Yvette, “combines traditional still life objects with appropriated images of women. Artists have explored the genre of still life painting for a variety of reasons. Over the history of art, harvested goods have been used as symbols of excess as well as representations of the human body. I am exploring appropriation as a means of recontextualizing these old forms. The work begins with a series of cut paper collages created from a variety of sources. The nature of appropriation (the reassignment of stolen images to create new meaning) is used to unite seemingly disconnected imagery.”
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