Ian McKay writes about artist Karlyn Sutherland in Art North Issue 4, Winter 2019.
Put simply, Karlyn Sutherland appears not to look to mathematical or formulaic points of departure, but more to a desire to represent the thing-ness of certain kinds of space, experience and/or spatial awareness. Removed as her works are from the specificity of 'place,' she nonetheless deploys the mathematical rules of perspective - at a base level at least , the work is representational in this regard, albeit 'detatched' at one and the same time.
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December 1, 2019
