Programmed Beat
10 x 8
Acrylic, spray paint, gouache, and oil stick on panel
Allie Stabile paints abstractions of her environment. Layers of bright acrylic paint are built up, scraped, and sanded down. Sharp edged lines create buildings and pathways that border textured, spray painted surfaces, suggesting the appearance of a city landscape. Oil stick grids, scribbles, and gestures pass over coarse and smooth surfaces, seeking solution within defined areas. Her work yields insinuations of the body, moments of flux, and discovers unexpected results through material experimentation.
Her work realizes the “awakening,” of a new normal, and how the pandemic has altered the ways in which we communicate and navigate space. Prison-like structures speak to feelings of confinement and anxiety, while erratic gestures suggest the need for liberation. Breaking prisms as norms speaks to her sexuality, but also to how we are dealing with the challenges of COVID-19. Interior spaces have become places of remote connection. Coping with these conditions has “awakened” how our interactions are not limited by physical structures.