2018 Floating Points
Marsh Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Joell Baxter Floating Points Screenprinted and woven paper, glue, fishing line, acrylic rods 11 x 25 x 25 feet (overall) Marsh Gallery at Indiana University, Indianapolis January 10th - February 24th, 2018
Architecturally scaled to fill the field of vision, the loose paper weave of Floating Points shifts restlessly between the tactile and visual to achieve a state of spatial flux. Baxter’s woven space creates an uneasy equilibrium between presence and absence, material and non-material.
Baxter draws from color theory, the science of vision, the history of weaving and quilt making, and the mutability of pixels. The interlocking warp and weft of each panel forms a grid, recalling the rigorous, generative language of minimalism, while the saturated, shifting colors recall the flickering light of pixelated screens. The work functions as a sort of net or pixilated plane that catches and disperses molecules of light.