DOUBLES
Sep 13 – Oct 1, 2017
One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Chashama, Brooklyn, NY
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Using a range of materials sourced from the home—drywall, retired clothing, house paint, linens, and roofing felt—Rooney creates painted objects that reclaim and estrange our understanding of domestic spaces, from the intimate to the political. A series of large-scale installations, including window shades, freestanding screens, and temporary walls, invites us to consider the boundaries against which our bodies define themselves.
The word "doubles" refers to both the works’ mode of production, and their finished visual form, which ranges from diptychs to compositions with repeating imagery. Warped stretcher bars, skateboard decks, architectural detritus, and furniture provide non-rectilinear frames and support structures which Rooney refers to, and sometimes directly copies, while painting their surfaces. As such, the imagery painted within and on top of these frames often references the shape of the frames themselves.
OBJ 1001, Oil on Canvas, 40 x40 inches. 2022.
