February 2011

Clouds InFormation

For the past five years, Helen Glazer’s work has been heavily influenced by chaos and complexity theories’ perspectives on the unpredictability of natural phenomena. As her latest Clouds series demonstrates, the artistic process is analogous to the dynamical systems posited by chaos and complexity theories—that is, an artwork takes shape within particular conditions of time, place, medium and the artist’s own hand, finally unfolding as these unpredictable forces interact. Under Glazer’s hand, clouds reveal themselves as intricately textured three-dimensional forms arising from the complex rhythms of flowing currents of air and from the artists’ own consciousness. They gesture and take on a poetic resonance. They morph into unexpected, almost otherworldly forms that would be difficult to invent. Clouds jarringly reminds the viewer that stability is an illusion, and that the reality we live in is being replaced moment by moment.

Visit Glazer’s website at www.helenglazer.com.