TZU LAN MANN’s upcoming solo exhibition “Murmuration”
Exhibition runs Saturday, September 9 – October 10, 2023.
Opening reception Saturday, September 9th from 2-4pm.
The artist will be in attendance. Please RSVP to moc.traenifnotrom@ofni
With Murmuration, Mann has embarked on a renewed foray into the potentiality of her materials and their relationships to one another. Works such as Swimming (2023) incorporate paper-folding, such as the Miuri-Ori fold, an origami tessellation that can be iterated repeatedly. The geometrically determined unevenness of the folds creates new ambiguities of flatness and perspectival depth as Mann shirks the straightforwardly placid picture-plane. It’s an element at home in her roster of trompe l’oeil effects, which distract or subvert expectations of formal precision and layering, encouraging the viewer to look closer, and become imaginatively involved with the making of each work.
-MFA