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Brent Sommerhauser
the wind would find it out
Exhibition: July 2 - August 15, 2009
Opening: First Thursday, July 2, 6 - 8 p.m.
There are thin, quiet places where invisible forces and visible material collide.
The surface of an empty page approached by a pencil and a thought, or a little wind meeting the world; nudging, persuading, diverting.
I believe there is a potency there at that barrier. Where, saddled with fuzzy lucidity, you might still lasso a daydream or tug at moments each afloat in their own way. There and not there, everythings and nothings. Both, at once.
A "tangle of matter and ghost," as Leonard Cohen mentioned a time or two.
I combine unspoken narrative and practical objects to merge two types of memory - the subtle mental process and that familiar record left upon physical material. As if preserving a glimpse of a situation as a prop to experience. In coercing material to bend to both memory and structure, the imagined is made tangible while romancing the real.
— Brent Sommerhauser
CURL, 2009
Custom tongue and groove flooring, fabricated from bending plywood
Dimensions variable
$12,000.
More installation views:
 
BRIDGE, 2008
Wood and glass
3.5 x 18 1.5 inches
$1,200 each
HOLDING, 2008
Desk, paper, laminated and carved pencils, fan
Dimensions variable
$3,000.
Detail view of HOLDING:
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING 1 and 2, 2009
Graphite on Rives BFK paper
21 x 29 inches
$1,000 each
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING 3 and 4, 2009
Graphite on Rives BFK paper
28 x 21 inches
$1,000 each
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING 5 and 6, 2009
Graphite on Rives BFK paper
21 x 28 inches
$1,000 each
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING 7, 2009
Graphite on Arches paper
20 x 28 inches
$1,000
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING 8, 2009
Graphite on Rives BFK paper
29 x 21 inches
$1,000 each
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