Courtney Sennish | Curbside

On display at Nick Ryan Gallery, in Boulder, Colorado until 19th April, is a collection of prints and sculptures by Courtney Sennish. Curbside marks the first time that Courtney has exhibited her two artistic practices side-by-side. A printmaker and sculptor based in the Bay Area, CA, Courtney’s work is inspired by architecture and the built environment, and examines found colour, shape, and texture.

“I amble through the city in search of illuminations: silent monuments presenting symbolic form and human decision. My process begins through isolating specific moments and details found in the urban landscape through photo documented walks. The city’s concrete gridded layout, road signals, paint colors and built textures weave together a familiar pattern: an urban fabric from which I can pull apart the individual pieces. I grant a spatial story to these accumulations through my sculpture. I look at repetition, shape and texture. I am interested in how nature is represented within the city structure and how people connect to the constructed landscape.”

This is the first time that these works are being exhibited in Colorado, with much of the collection created exclusively for the show. Curbside sees Courtney examine the built environment through both 2D and 3D mediums, with colours for each of the sculptures and prints pulled directly from the urban environment. Exhibiting the two mediums alongside one another was a natural step, with one influencing the other. Courtney states; “I have prints and sculptures constantly in progress so I jump back and forth between mediums as new ideas come to me. Sometimes explorations or experiments in one medium informs the other.”

Summarising her experience of Curbside, Courtney tells us; “It was great to see how the gallerist planned and curated the exhibition. Two of my sculptures were placed next to paintings by Ky Anderson in the gallery space and I enjoyed those visual relationships… I really enjoyed the visual conversation between the mediums. This sparked new ideas for future experimentation to push the connection between 2D and 3D further or integrate them in a new way.”