06/05/2026
Jean Wilson said she would want to be a spider on a web like this.
Arabella, 2026 - Jacqueline Surdell
Cotton cord, nylon cord, survival cord, meat hooks,, steel chain, steel armatures, and coated wire.
“Surdell approaches her studio practice with the meticulous precision of craft and the unbridled spontaneity of contemporary painting. She reimagines the woven canvas as a space of undulation and growth. As the expanded histories of painting materialize in her work as content, simultaneously, swollen tendrils and textures of bound rope deny illusions of the classically painted picture plane. The works actively work to bridge the division between painting and sculpture. In this way, her work calls into association other binary categorizations such as rigid and collapsed, construction techniques coded as masculine or feminine, and ontological spaces between body and sculpture. Her energetic and materially grounded practice brings to attention the tools, environments, and actions that contain and display performances of labor, history, and power. “ -JacquelineSurdell(dot)com
Check out Jacqueline’s work in Wild Thing through July 10th.
Where:
Circle Contemporary- West Town
2010 W. Carroll Ave
Chicago, IL 60612
Image ID:
Image 1 - Jean Wilson standing in front of Jacqueline Surdell‘s mixed media cord and wire sculpture titled Arabella.
Image 2 - Medium shot of colorful mixed media cord and wire sculpture next to art in gallery.
Image 3 - Close up of sculpture showing intricately weaved cords and wire in circular patterns with strands anchored to gallery wall.
