Isabelle H. Radtke
Isabelle tackles poetry; The surrounds resonates
from her
hammering, the grinder’s whistles.
Arranging fixtures and supports, little by little, she gives the sheet
of steel a volume; puts it on its feet. Her volumes become corporal: a
cow, -that she has a primordial experience of- or other “creatures”.
When she sees to painting, it is not about physical strength anymore,
but there too, poetry comes from a heed, an obedience. She lets herself
be surprised by what’s revealed, and then plays big by cutting,
tearing, shifting her shreds of paint, unstuck from their support.
Fragments of colors in transparencies, structuring or playful graphics
that bit-by-bit open the road for some “landscapes”.
One is derailed by this painting that turns traditions into a game,
refusing to be a painting.
website: www.IHRgallery.com
Isabelle Humbert Radtke
Art is not the point, what matters is what it tends toward.
So I work with surfaces: sheets of metal or fragile skins of paint to represent the outer skin of a mystery I wouldn’t dare to name.
Born in 1977 in Switzerland, lives and works in NYC since 2001.
Major exhibitions
2007 Sculpture in the Garden, Nyon, Switzerland
2006 Tout un cirque: Galerie Ed. Roch, Ballens, Switzerland. Solo show in parallel to Anne-Marie Gbindoun's and Sébastien Peissard's.
2005 Peaux de peinture: Solo show, Chapelle St Joseph, Fitou, France
2004-present group show at the Space:
- 2007 "Color", first friday at HQ, L.I.C., NY
- 2007 “Benefit for the Space LIC Artist Collective”, Levine Residence, Scarsdale, NY
- 2007 "Childish memories", first friday at HQ, L.I.C., NY
- 2006 "No laughing matter" the gallery Space, L.I.C., NY
- 2004 "summer in Long Island City:" the gallery Space, L.I.C., NY
2003-present GROW !: Ongoing outdoor sculpture show, L.I.C., NY
2001 La peau des Pas sages: solo show, Quai du Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland.
2000 Ce qui reste: Temporary installation, socrates sculpture park, L.I.C., NY
Education
-College Voltaire, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-1996: Visual Art, “mention good”.
-National School of Fine Arts, Paris, France, 1997-2000: Studied under Richard Deacon.
-Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, 2000-2001:
Assistant to artist Robert Barnstone (architectural designer at the Washington State University)
in the creation of “Prone”, a two-and-a-half-ton wooden sculpture (2000).
Assistant to artist Lars Fisk for an 8-ton concrete sculpture (2001).
-The Space, Long Island City, NY, 2002-present: Artist in residence and public space development.