Kerry Poliness  
Kerry Poliness

Kerry Poliness, Red Matter Wall
Drawing #2
, 1994-95

Kerrie Poliness Red Matter Wall Drawing #2 provides cross-sections of the expanding forces of decorama. She diagrams the movement between the autonomy of abstraction and the existential coordinates of the gallery in grids that buckle under the pressure of dilation. The distortion draws points of perspective out of the flat matrix in a way which suggests an interface between different dimensions. Poliness emphasises the surface tension of her work by recruiting other people to execute her geometric equations on the walls of the gallery. Her helpers work at close range, tracing her abstract formulas into the institutional container and into the perceptual space of lived bodies.