Shirley Kaneda: Doubled prisms

This article examines the work of Shirley Kaneda, Korean-Japanese American artist. It discusses various paintings from Kaneda’s output, both 1990s and last six years, in order to draw out her concerns intentions. In this light it also explores statements articles interviews thinking through intertwining theoretical painterly concerns. moves context early Conceptual Abstraction exhibition 1991 at Sidney Janis Gallery New York, actual form procedures that implements. Formalism, or post-formalism here, develops means deconstruct certain inherited tropes modernism provide a new re-formation them, here Kaneda draws on feminist, modernist poststructuralist ideas. has implications for viewer how frames proposes material an encounter with these elements. The bracketing recent highlights ongoing continuities differences within oeuvre.