Contributed by Marjorie Welish / Rafaël Rozendaal’‘s “Anti-Social” is polyglot, and speaks all at once. Stretched on a support for canvas is a Jacquard textile that professes both web information and an intuitively arrived at design compatible with painting. The basis for these compositions is the internet screen; and although stripped of words, the images are still identifiable as Google, Google Dox, reddit, and others, wherein an algorithm creates a recognizable order, that beauty overlays in arrhythmic disorder. Giddiness beyond prettiness.
“Rafaël Rozendaal’:Anti Social,” Postmasters, Tribeca, New York, NY. Through October 14, 2017.
About the author: Painter and art critic Marjorie Welishhas received many grants and fellowships, including the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fifth Floor Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding (supporting an exchange between the International Studio Program, New York and the Artists Museum, ?d? Poland). Last year she had a solo show at ART 3 Gallery in Bushwick.
