SPLENDOR ROT
Exhibition: January 3 - February 9, 2008
Opening: January 3, 6 - 8 p.m.
"Saturday after" artist talk: January 5, 12:00
Click on an image below to see available work:
SPIDERS & LACE, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar and pins
108 x 58 x 1.5 inches
$5,500.
Detail: SPIDERS AND LACE
WHITE THICKET, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
42 x 26 x 5 inches
$3,100
FROSTWORK, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
44 x 26 x 5 inches
$3,100
Artist Statement for SPLENDOR ROT Over the past 15 years, my art has been focused on an approach to form that plays with the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture. Rooted in process, my explorations have also been driven by an interest in materiality, phenomenological presence and gesture.
This new body of work includes Duralar constructions, wall installations and works of laser-cut steel. All of the works are assemblages that use the repetition of gesture and material to create structures that hover between 2D and 3D, and fluctuate between abstraction and representation. With a direct and lyrical presence, the work explores relationships between monumentality and fragility, weightlessness and gravity, beauty and danger, sharpness and softness, splendor and decay.
Recurring references to natural forms and processes are present, but there is an intentional sense of multiplicity. Shapes and configurations suggest a range of associations: landscape, wind, crystals, gems, mountains, heaps, grasses, knives, chrysanthemums, explosions, scratches, insects, fungus, seepage.
The steel work introduces a new tactility and presence while still holding the gesture of the Duralar work. Hints of the seemingly disparate impulses of both minimalism and "maximalism" (the Baroque, Symbolist, Romantic and Rococo) are found, as is the recurring formal element of line. I've also abandoned my traditionally saturated color palette for this show. The works are mostly gray, white, with some blacks, metallics and oozy browns.
Light and shadow, motion and suspension, and a fascination with gleaming, shiny surfaces are also present. The exhibition lighting will be purposefully utilized to create maximum shadows as an integral part of these works.
MUM HEAP (mountain), 2007
Acrylic on Duralar and pins
162 x 123 x 15 inches
$11,000
Detail: MUM HEAP (mountain), 2007
MUM BANGS, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
33 x 11 x 4 inches SOLD
TWINED FLOWERS (swirling in a stream), 2007
Blackened and lacquered steel and pins 51 x 22 x 3 inches
Edition of 3
$2,000.
FIREFROST, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar and pins
21 x 48 x 3 inches
$2,500.
DAISY HIVE, 2007
Blackened and lacquered steel and pins
32 x 13 x 4 inches
Edition of 3
$1,800.
SPIDER WIND, 2007
Blackened and lacquered steel and pins
29 x 55 x 5 inches
Edition of 3 SOLD OUT
MERCURY BREATH, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
61 x 27 x 15 inches
$4,800.
EDGE OF A WORLD (wind), 2007
Etched and lacquered steel
132 x 174 x 15 inches POR
Detail: EDGE OF A WORLD
DELILAH, 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
43 x 49 x 6 inches SOLD
HEAVY FLOWER (edge of the world), 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and wood
48 x 22 x 7 inches SOLD
SPLENDOR ROT (smoke and flower), 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and wood
30 x 5 x 5 inches SOLD
SPLENDOR ROT (white mum with explosion), 2007
Acrylic on Duralar, nylon bolts and lacquered panel
30 x 5 x 14 inches
$1,800.
