Eyes Like Enemies Oct 7-31, 2017
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Upcoming Exhibitions:
Eyes Like Enemies: New work by Mark Brosseau and Brian Edmonds East Side Project Space, Dadu Pop-up, Curator: Jodi Hays 507 Hagen Street, Nashville Oct. 6-31 Reception, Sat. Oct 7th (WeHo Art Crawl) Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased. -Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space This exhibition brings together two painters whose work adds to the discourse on abstraction and the nature of painting. I have enjoyed thinking about their work in this context, at the Packing Plant, in a small room of east Side Project Space, sharing doors with neighbors and winding around an art-filled cabin. Their works force us to look inward, recalling memories of Crayola paint and Pong. These painters allow for an interiority to form between the work and the viewer, creating a triangulation of work/memory/viewer. Sight is not the only way to enter paintings; considerations of space, history and memory give the viewer a broader experience to bring to seeing/experiencing the work. Alan Greenspan said (2008) of his misunderstanding of capitalism, “I discovered a flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works.” Paintings by Brosseau and Edmonds occupy a place in abstraction that leans on titles, references discovery and relies on research that can belie an only-visual read. Edmond’s titles, for this show, are pulled from those that construct a narrative of darkness and interiority (Erasure, God Night, Attic Black). Brosseau’s paintings rely on language/titles speaking to spaces riddled with ambiguity (Toxic, Camouflaged, Disparate). Within the logic of making a painting, these two have found a system, flaws and all. Past Exhibitions: September 2016-Erika Ranee April 2016-Christopher Roberson's River Rat September 2015-COOP Gallery Fundraiser for Campfire: Painting Exhibition Series June 2015- galleryELL presents Home jodihays at gmail dot com Office Hours: during exhibitions only |
