NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN AND PHYLLIDA BARLOW

Posted by Emilie Gordon on October 9, 2010

Nairy Baghramian and Phyllida Barlow

Although both artists aren’t directly influential or similar to my current art practice, I had been told about Phyllida Barlow in a tutorial and when the exhibition popped up at the Serpentine Gallery I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to see her work. The Serpentine is a small Gallery in Kensington Garden’s; the exhibition space consists of three rooms. I first catch the reflection of my lower body in Nairy Baghramian’s minimalist sculpture before walking into a room full of modern architectural works, balanced and smooth then with a completely different approach to sculpture you have the work of Barlow which is rough, and large as if energetically produced in a fast frenzy.

I wrote the above on my first year at Wimbledon College of Art, Now into my second year Phyllida Barlow pop’s up again as a suggestion in my tutorial on Friday 8th 2010, and as my practice is beginning to find it’s footing I am able to relate my work to phyllida Barlow’s sculpture’s. It is her use of materials that are important in relation to my own art practice, the variety that she uses and the way in which it is applied. Materiality is my next exploration with my ideas formed on the basis of science and psychology.

 Phyllida Barlow and Nairy Baghramian. Press Pictures courtesy of the Serpentine Gallery.