Art Date

Jessica Rankin’s art at the White Cube, Masons Yard London

I made a pilgrimage to Masons Yard in London to visit the other elusive White Cube gallery today. I made a day trip out of it and brought my daughter and met up with my good old friend Davoc afterwards. Abstract art can sometimes leave me a bit cold (Unless it’s Lee Krasner or Helen Frankenthaler) This combination of embroidered threads flexing and breathing through the paint on unprimed canvas was refreshing and engaging on a new level. Both my daughter and I had to resist the urge to stroke and caress the threaded surface like it was cloth on a hanger.

Loose tasseled threads descended on parts of the work

Existential questions amid circular shapes as titles. The titles of the artworks themselves were carefully embroidered along the edges of the canvas. Those parts were actually my favourite.