Amanda Konishi
My recent work has been a consideration of the relationship between texture, form, mark-making, and objecthood. Textural and optical sensation, especially as seen in nature, has been a large influence in these pieces, and I often deploy pattern, mark-making and line to chase the essence of the natural world. Physical and visual texture are separate but overlapping stimuli, and often make themselves apparent to me through observing the curve of a shoot, or handling a seedpod. Visual texture is something that seems to be taking on a more defined identity as we are heavily plied with complex image consumption. Even so, I don’t think that it is now any easier to sever optical experience from the tactility of a surface or object, and there is a void left when we experience either end without the half.
For me, the relationship between image or object and mark-making is very similar to the relationship between physical and visual textures. The experience of making is not the experience of the object, but they do overlap and are counterpart to each other.
A Drawing.
The meaning of this is entirely and best to say the mark, best to say it best to show sudden places, best to make bitter, best to make the length tall and nothing broader, anything between the half.
- Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914
![{ cloud • dog (singular) - [wicker pockets whisper of living grass] • } 2020, Monotype with acrylic, acrylic gouache and collage on paper,
10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fda9aeba67c9771272cc765/202b4934-cdd6-4dd3-83ba-d4562be483a5/%7Bcloud+dog+%28singular%29+-+%5Bwicker+pockets+whisper+of+living+grass%5D%7D_web.jpg)
{ cloud • dog (singular) - [wicker pockets whisper of living grass] • } 2020, Monotype with acrylic, acrylic gouache and collage on paper, 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches
i’ve never had a dream this color ii, 2019, Acrylic gouache and ballpoint on joined paper, 16 1/2 x 14 inches
(I.D.) little m ii, 2018, Acrylic, acrylic gouache, charcoal, thread, and grommets on paper, 15 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches
Penny (C.A.R.), 2020, Acrylic, acrylic gouache, colored pencil, ballpoint, and grommets on paper, 15 x 21 3/4 inches
three and three again (grid ii), 2019, Acrylic gouache and charcoal on paper, 8 x 6 1/4 inches
three and three again (grid iii), 2019, Acrylic gouache and charcoal on paper, 10 x 8 inches
untitled (chopsticks Fish), 2019, Acrylic gouache and charcoal on paper, 7 x 10 inches
(cat in the grass), 2019, Acrylic, acrylic gouache, and thread on paper, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches