Barry Whistler Gallery continues the 2017 season with an exhibition of works by gallery artist Lorraine Tady. Sparklines opens October 21, 6-8 p.m., and runs through November 25, 2017. This exhibition marks the artist’s seventh solo show at the gallery since 1994.
For the past 25 years, Lorraine Tady’s work has explored a process-oriented conceptual abstraction using re-invention, or re-assembly, of her bank of invented imagery. The show includes paintings, drawings, and prints from her “Octagon Vibration Series.” This series focuses on intuitive architectural spaces, digital explorations and continued arrays of interconnected parts. Tady’s art has been influenced by excursions to northern New Mexico; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Paris, France; and northeast Iceland. The artist states, “The work is map-like as an intuitive translation of experience in a place—a type of spatial graph that is also structural.”
Edward Tufte’s “intense continuous time-series” reduction of data into a strong, specific graphic line (from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983) was eventually re-named “sparklines” in 2006. Sparklines as an exhibition title is a tag for Tady’s own poetic translation of Tufte’s “extreme compaction of process and experience” into a line.
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