Upcoming:
Ernest Rosenthal: Limbs Intertwined January 10th - Feb 2 2020
Marval A Rex: MARVAL A F//K A Solo Exhibition of Marval A Rex
February 8 - March 6 2020
Line Starts Here: Alexis Branger and Devin Andersen
Friday Oct 25 209 thru Nov 22 2019 extended by appt thru Dec 9
with additional works from Jackie Perez
PERFORMING ABSTRACTION
September 13th 2019 – October 11th 2019
Opening Reception and Performance with Marval A. Rex
Friday Sept 13th 7-11pm
Video + Performance Night Fri Sept 27th 8pm
Page Person, Christopher Anthony Velasco, Tara Jane O'Neil and others TBA
Hours: Fri + Sat 2-6pm or by appointment
Participating artists include:
Gianni Arone
Ciriza
Daniel Leland Crook
Katelyn Dorroh
Paul Donald
Luka Fisher
Coffee Kang
Peter Kalisch
Machine
Tara Jane O'Neal
Page Person
Marval A. Rex
Kayla Tange
Christopher Anthony Velasco
For Immediate Release::
PERFORMING ABSTRACTION presents sculptures and paintings by artists who traverse the boundaries of performance and object making via painting and sculpture.
Art found in galleries (and its presentation) is a performance, too--and many of the artists in this group show engage with their object making in a performative or ritualistic manner. The performance of abstraction and of mark making in PERFORMING ABSTRACTION is a means to both conceal and reveal the artists’ relationships to embodiment, sensuality, erotics, magic, narcissism, gender identity, immigration, and gentrification, and economics realities among a bevy of concerns.
Abstraction is a means of survival. We reduce objects/signs/marks to their simplest forms to make sense of the world--Or, we use this reduction (counterintuitively) to complicate, to hide meaning amidst the chaos. The artists presented in PERFORMING ABSTRACTION engage a range of strategies reflected in this group show’s selections.Some artists in this show split the difference, while others consider painting (specifically abstract painting) as a “polite” way to perform anger and absurdity.
Performances, video screenings, and ice cream socials will bookend this critical exhibition curated by Ilona Berger and Luka Fisher.
