Karla Black is a Glasgow based sculptor. She creates site specific sculptures using a range of unusual material such as powder paint, cellophane, dry plaster and Vaseline.
Due to their unusual compound, Black's sculptures seem to posses an organic nature. They change over the duration of the exhibition; the plaster absorbs moisture which in turn alters the sculpture's appearance and texture. Black describes her material as a mess of formless matter and she chooses her material out of a "pure physical desire for them."
Black's work has an interesting interplay between fragility and sculptural form. There is a moment once the sculptures are finished they are perfect, then they slowly begin to disintegrate.
Black's choice of a pastel palette gives the sculptures a feminine quality, along with the use of materials such as eye shadow, concealer and lipstick. Her work also evokes a sense of landscape. One feels that the work is the landscape rather than a mere representation of it.
"The finished work has a looseness and messiness that is allowed to exist within an overall attempt at simplicity, purity, cleanness and smoothness. It is often caught between thoughtless gesture and seriously obsessive attempts at beauty." Karla Black.
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