Matrices of Transformation
Digital Prints, Series, 2007
Matrixes of Transformation, consists of 6-11, 22 x 18 Mixed Media Photographic Prints, Pricing available upon request.
Matrices of Transformation
The matrix is a visual foundation for this body of work. I merge colored feminine objects such as bras, jewelry, ribbon, and purses through masculine metal forms in order to visually fuse the various materials and energies. I then sew or attach these items to canvas or weave them through metal grid-like forms that I have defined symbolically as masculine structures. I use found objects to symbolically articulate the need to recycle energy and power inherent to discarded materials.
Matrices of Transformation, my graduate thesis works, is divided into three series: The Matrix Series, Heal Thyself Series, and Flight of the Chicken Wire. The Matrix Series is made up of abstract two-dimensional paper mosaic collages. The Heal Thyself Series consists of three mixed media on canvas sewn assemblages. The Chicken Wire Series consists of three-dimensional textile sculptural forms and one mixed media sculptural installation titled Flight of the Chicken Wire.
Periodically, as I created these works I took pictures to document the various stages and discoveries that occurred along the way. While documenting the stages of creating, I created and additional body of work. I refer to this body of photography as Matrices of Transformation. This particular set of photographs are of Flight of the Chicken Wire laid over top of the three separate works that form the Heal Thyself series.
Click link to view the Heal They Self series:
https://www.amberroblesgordon.com/heal-thyself-series
Click link to view Flight of the Chicken Wire installation:
https://www.amberroblesgordon.com/flight-of-the-chicken-wire-public-art-installation
By Mark Jenkins
August 23, 2012
Patchwork is the operative mode — and metaphor — in “#myDeanwood: Honoring the Past to Create the Future,” a survey of art chosen to reflect Northeast Washington. There are other media in this small show, but most of the pieces are assemblages. Journalist and artist Esther Iverem makes quilted collages with historical elements, both personal and cultural; she sometimes invokes Oya, the Yoruba spirit of communication with ancestors. Sherry Burton Ways’s dolls are constructed of sticks, fabric, paper and what appears to be human hair; mounted atop strips of patterned fabric, these totemic figures evoke layers of history. Most interesting is Amber Robles-Gordon’s “Matrixes of Transformation” series, which does indeed transform her colorful fabric combinations by photographing them. These 2-D images have a strong sense of depth, but by focusing on details, they offer a more direct way to see Robles-Gordon’s tangled work.
Jenkins is a freelance writer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/dcjcc-showcases-some-wonder-women-of-underground-comics/2012/08/23/e905ef36-ec7a-11e1-aca7-272630dfd152_story.html