"My position as an artist is trying to work through commodification," says Alice Channer. "Fashion and the things I wear are the most intimate examples of that." Her delicate sculptures appropriate and displace the codes of clothing design: Marble is polished into heavy bangles that stand at the base of elastic totems; large sheets of hanging paper evoke both empty canvases and formal kimonos; and her pleated-fabric pieces conjure a bodily presence. Channer’s studio is located in a two-story building in the London borough of Hackney. Her London gallery, the Approach, will present a solo show of her work from March 17 through April 17.
"Studio Check: Alice Channer" originally appeared in the March 2011 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' March 2011 Table of Contents.
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