Letitia Quesenberry
Hyperspace 13
Wood, plexiglass, and spray paint.
This piece is from Quesenberry’s ongoing Hyperspace series, which she began in 2015. For over 20 years, she has created individual bodies of work that are seemingly different because of her pursuit of different materials (Polaroid, painting, sculpture, light, and technology), but the constant thread throughout her work has been to push her chosen medium (or material) to its edge. Hence the name “Hyperspace.” The result is a literal blurring of lines and depth of field but metaphorically bring to bare our own perceptions of preconceived truths and narrative. Influenced by recent collaborations with the Louisville Ballet and the Light and Space movement of the 1960s that included James Terrell and Bruce Nauman, we see in this mature work Quesenberry’s highly crafted custom wood frames and a mastery of light with a gradation of color that is at once painterly, sculptural, and contemplative.