On the other side series
2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
On the other side is a series of glass paintings that takes its conceptual, visual and color cues from Urgency and Longing (On the other side), a video work featuring an ironwood tree, glass, phone screens and fingers.
EXCERPT FROM CURATOR’S ESSAY
Glass, apparently intangible, forms a barrier and a portal to reality; the artist’s touch is the magic that cracks open a connection to a novel world through the glass to the tree on the other side. Its transparency deceptively seems to yield to pressure. As her fingers and body press against it, it oscillates between portal and mirror. In touching the glass with painted fingers, Choksi embraces the history and primary touch of painting going all the way back to the cave. Her work shares in the primordial quality of the artist’s vision, a quest for the lived perspective, the core truths of perceptual experience."—David Thorp
The exhibition with the curator’s essay is archived online here. A feature essay and review is here.
WORKS
Into (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
13 x 22 x 3 inches
Near (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
17 x 20 x 3 inches
Beside (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
17 x 20 x 3 inches
As (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
13 x 22 x 3 inches
Between (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
17 x 20 x 3 inches
Toward (On the other side) , 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
13 x 22 x 3 inches
Lean (On the other side), 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
17 x 20 x 3 inches
Reach (On the other side), 2021
glass paint baked onto tempered ultra-clear glass, gray one-way mirror, walnut wood
17 x 20 x 3 inches
