Tenfold Ascension

Tenfold Ascension places a rising figure inside a submerged architectural world. Rib-like structures, bubbles and points of light pull the eye through a corridor that feels simultaneously anatomical, monumental and fluid.

Kimberly Nichole Reising develops her drawings through layered perception: forms are constructed, partly concealed and rediscovered as light and atmosphere shift. Within this environment, realism becomes a gateway into something less immediately identifiable.

The work also belongs to Reising’s investigation of reflection, hinged edges and repeating fields, where an individual image can become the beginning of a larger visual architecture.

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Reising is the grand prize winner of Philadelphia’s America 250 design contest. Read about the artist.