Post Montgomery Center: Anastasia Faiella

SLATE is pleased to present works by Anastasia Faiella at Post Montgomery Center in San Francisco, on view now through January 5, 2022.

 Post Montgomery Center Lobby Entrance, 120 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

 To view, visit the address above during regular business hours, Monday–Friday from 8:00 am–5:00 pm or contact info@slateart.net or call 510-652-4085 for a private viewing appointment.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

 Anastasia Faiella works with and against the limits of her media. When does paint resist her gesture and intention? When might words fail to communicate? Through her work as a dancer, Faiella realized that she needed discipline and structure to press against the challenges of the body. Her artistic practice continues this method of rigor and repetition to work beyond what she knows.

 Faiella's recent body of work is informed by her earlier performance art, as it investigates the role of the body in mark making. Her investigation questions how repetition and extended gestures become legible, and how repletion or the body can interrupt access to words. In these paintings, letters across a canvas invite but refuse reading. Through gestures with translucent and opaque paint, she renders the difficulty of accessing language: the viewer wants to read through, to know or understand, but are instead kept at a distance.