"Scarlett Cibilich actively tests the boundaries of painting. She works with myriad media: pen on graph paper; draped, digitally printed fabric; assemblages of aluminium tracking, dowelling, and strips of wood. Some works include elements typically associated with paintings, such as brushstrokes on board or cloth stretched over a wooden frame. But she is consistently interested in extending into other modes of production, whether those modes are close to painting (drawing, printing) or at something of a remove (clothing, industrial design). Cibilich’s works are deconstructive, breaking painting down into its component parts and investigating the extent to which those parts might still gesture towards the ‘tradition’. Her works tend to obfuscate the human hand. Her assemblages remain contingent, being reworked in response to their physical situation."
Read MoreFrancis McWhannell, 2019
Scarlett Cibilich works in Auckland and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts (MFA) in 2018. Recent exhibitions include ‘One Metre Composition’, Auckland Art Fair Projects 2018, and ‘Between Halfway’, Elam Graduate Show 2017. Scarlett was a recipient of the Studio Art Supplies Prize, University of Auckland 2018.
Text courtesy Jhana Millers.
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