Strange Vitality
Solo Exhibition
Mason Gross Art Galleries
33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ
Exhibition Dates
February 2016
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot
2016
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot
2016
Out of and Into
84 x 72 inches
Oil on Canvas
2016
Underneath and Through
20 x 16 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot 2015
Into the Garden
20 x 16 inches
Oil on Linen
2016
Roped In
40 x 30 Inches
Oil on Linen
2015
Overlap and Count Off
72 x 48 Inches
Oil on Linen
2016
Strange Vitality
Installation Shot 2016
Strange Vitality
This exhibition explores a core and complex relationship in painting between the material versus the virtual.
I wondered, ‘What would a surrogate for a painting be like?’ So I began to make three dimensional low-relief painted collages. This created a type of original, that I could then transcribe from. The painted rendering becomes like a prosthetic painting. The paintings function in a way that fulfills the space of a physical painting but is still not quite right. Something feels off.
The paintings are essentially abstract yet the effect of rendering from a physical mock-up provides an unclear fidelity. This led to creating a more meta-relationship between the painting and its initial referent. The paintings functioned in a closed circuit. While alluding to inviting illusory space it unravels the painting, breaks down the artifice, negates and makes space uninhabitable.