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New Wire Drawings by Cornelia Parker at D’Amelio Terras

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents a series of new wire drawings by gallery artist Cornelia Parker. The artist is well known for her large-scale installations of transformed or destabilized objects that re-emerge in surprisingly beautiful forms. For years, Parker has been concerned with formalizing things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something quiet and contemplative. Here, Parker has melted lead bullets and literally drawn them to the limits of their materiality. Creating wire grids, Parker mimics the act of drawing a line. Akin to the Minimalist vision of reducing geometry and abstraction to the barest essentials,