Folding, Tops at Madison Avenue Park, Memphis, Tennessee
Tops at Madison Avenue Park 151 Madison Avenue (viewable on Maggie H. Isabel St) Memphis, TN 30103
May 20-September 16, 2023
On view 24 hours a day
Tops is pleased to present Folding, a site specific wall drawing by Amy Pleasant at our Madison Avenue Park gallery.
Folding consists of twelve silhouetted human forms that depict arms enveloping their heads. From realistically rendered to near complete abstraction, the universal glyph-like symbols comprise a storyboard of interior concentration and protection: the body collapsing in on itself. Transcribed from her drawings, the enlarged figures in Pleasant’s Folding maintain the immediacy and graceful economy of their source.
Flat and featureless these figures are freed from the specificity of time and place. Presented in a space that is both private and public, the variations of Pleasant's forms meet both intentional and circumstantial viewers with a code that is familiar yet indecipherable.
