“Angela de la Cruz (Corunna, 1965) has been experimenting with the language of painting for over two decades. The artist has tried to redefine the terms and boundaries of the medium since she began, focusing on painting as an object and in terms of what it can represent. De la Cruz has developed a specific language that enables her to endow her paintings with sculptural qualities, erasing the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and using each of them without distinction depending on what she wants to express and the need of each work.” Angela de la Cruz, 2019, Organizer Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) At: https://artfacts.net/exhibition/angela-de-la-cruz-homeless/880642 (Accessed 25.08.2021)
The artist distorts the beginning of the canvas. Perhaps it started as a search or just interest, but De la Cruz remains unchanged with the object. The canvas as the material begins to live separately from the wooden structure on the one hand, but on the other, they still remain together. We read the description of the medium, and it is most often "oil on canvas". But comparing this with what we saw, it turns out that not only the paint participates in the interpretation of the plot (here the main character is colour), but also the material of the canvas itself.
The material (canvas) gives shape, plays with chiaroscuro, changes the original colour, fills the gallery space or pretends to be represented on the objects of everyday life of a person, chairs, wardrobes.
Angela de la Cruz, Transfer (Red), 2011. Armchair, wooden painted box and chair. 84 cm x 200 cm x 95 cm. At: https://www.art-agenda.com/features/233501/angela-de-la-cruz-s-transfer (Accessed 25.08.2021)
“Los Angeles–based painter Dianna Molzan approaches the canvas sculpturally, shaping and shifting her abstract paintings in a manner that often bridges a connection between decorative and fine art. ... Molzan’s work plays with the relationship between oil and linen, surface and support, image and object.” MOCA, At: https://www.moca.org/program/artists-on-artists-dianna-molzan (Accessed 25.08.2021)
Dianna Molzan [Art object] At: http://www.diannamolzan.com/paintings-003-2011-2012/059 (Accessed 25.08.2021)
Dianna Molzan, in comparison with De la Cruz, expands the palette of colours, shapes and objects, although she remains in the field of the question of the difference between painting and sculpture.
“Her (Sarah Crowner) large abstractions, made of boldly colored canvas shapes that she pieces together on her industrial Juki sewing machine, have an impromptu handmade look that pulls the viewer into them.” Vogue At: https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-crowner-brooklyn-artist-interview-vogue-december-2018 (Accessed 25.08.2021)
Sewing canvas fabric also means rethinking the object itself. Here in the first place comes the fact that the material remains a material, and you can not only paint on it but also use it in other ways, dissolve it on threads, sew, use templates and blanks...
Installation view of Sarah Crowner, Wall (Wavy Arrow Terracotta), 2018, 57th Carnegie International. Photo by Bryan Conley. Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York. At: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-carnegie-international-puts-joy-politics (Accessed 25.08.2021)
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