With Parallel Lines Meet At The Point of Infinity, Olympia Scarry presents a body of work that includes installations and works on paper.
“From my perspective, I don’t really see things how they are. But then again nor do I not. It’s as if Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle were applied not to sub-atomic matter but to the particulates of thought. The question, whether of the experiment or the picture, is how can I be in it and see it at the same time? How can art bypass the observer effect and where do parallel trains of thought meet?
“The Son of Man II” 2019 and “Seeing Things as They Are II” 2019 both glass paintings reflective of windows comprised of cellular like structural drawing created with broken glass. This work is a continuation of Scarry’s collaboration with the glass maker Urs Rickenbach, who realized Sigmar Polke’s glass windows at the Grossmunster Cathedral in Zurich in 2009 and with whom she realized last year “Eleven/Eleven” Scarry’s first permanent and public commission in NY comprising of 22 skin toned windows at Eleven Madison Park. Scarry diagrams possibility while at the same time withholding the very point of view that such possibility typically provides with her glass works. The thing that we typically look through, we are here asked to look at. Ultimately, suggesting that how we perceive our perception of the world into concrete structures, both literally and figuratively, may be in constant flux. Each of these works is the result of the masterful alchemy of transformation.”
– Neville Wakefield
