Wave Hill _ ART

Glyndor Gallery

“Out of Bounds” Catalogue

Jennifer McGregor - Curator

“37 Days at Wave Hill / Winter 2005” - Yvonne Estrada

Through improvisation and gesture, Yvonne Estrada expands her extemporaneous technique of drawing and painting to create a densely layered installation. Observing Wave Hill in winter and experiencing the landscape covered in snow were essential to the genesis of this piece. Working with an entire section of the room, her installation encompasses five walls, and gives the appearance of Japanese screens. Since she preferred to work on paper rather than the painted wall surface, she mounted sheetrock panels, which may also be removed and reconfigured at the end of the exhibition. These were transported to Wave Hill with initial marks that began in her studio. Working on site over the course of six weeks, the drawings emerged and synthesized each day, developing from spontaneous accidents. During the process, white washes of paint would mute earlier black and blue marks. Estrada continuously brought forward new drawings to the surface from this mist.

Excerpt from The Brooklyn Rail

Out of Bounds
Wave Hill
Glyndor House
May 2005

Next is Yvonne Estrada. Her wintry installation is the most labor-intensive of the group. It’s composed like a painting, not schematized like a mural. It must have demanded constant attention to composition in execution and provides intricate imagery at all viewing distances. You could cut it up, thought I wouldn’t, and make dozens of small works. The wide breadth of its delicate forms—curved lattices, spirals, tendrils, and much more—seems to have grown from describing a sphere. This consistent logic gives the piece unity, while the strenuous labor that accompanied its creation gives it a vibrancy that makes one wonder if, had she been given the time, Estrada would have filled all of Glyndor.

—Ben La Rocco