Greene Naftali is pleased to announce RAQUE FORD’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, which reveals new facets of what one critic calls her “plexiglass poetry.” That slick surface is also the working matrix for a suite of monotypes on view—experiments in form undertaken at New York City’s renowned Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Ford’s unique works on paper find a lyrical edge to the physical properties of prints: images made under pressure, forged through contact and release. The exhibition features wall-mounted works in her signature sheets of bright acrylic, laser-cut with snippets of text and graphic symbols pulled from popular culture. These frieze-like objects were lifted from Ford’s custom dance floors and bear the traces of past use—sociability, proximity, and connection indexed in the nicks and dings that mar the plastic. The artist’s interest in industrial and found materials extends to two further interventions: kinetic sculptures made from commercial receipt printers put to wayward use, and a site-specific activation of the gallery’s windows that sets the stage for fresh encounters.
