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Galleri Tom Christoffersen: WASHED UP AND BLEACHED OUT - Jess Fuller & Sam Moyer cube: Aspen Mays - 2 Dec 2011 to 13 Jan 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Jess Fuller: Sunset stain. Acrylic, fabric dye & stuffed canvas, 2011
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WASHED UP AND BLEACHED OUT Jess Fuller & Sam Moyer curated by Jens-Peter Brask 2.12. 2011 - 13.1. 2012 Opening: Friday 2.12. 2011, 5-7 pm Scroll down for text in English Tre amerikanske kunstnere udstiller denne gang i Galleri Tom Christoffersen. Jess Fuller og Sam Moyer indtager galleriet med malerier i stof og tekstiler, og Aspen Mays viser fotografier i Cube. Fælles for alle tre er at de skaber billeder ud af eksisterende materiale, og på hver deres måde bringer nogle tematikker omkring tilfældigheder/orden, afgrænsning og form i spil. Der er fokus på processen og forvandlingen i billederne, men samtidig fremstår de smukt færdige i en suveræn opvisning i hvad man kunne kalde en sfærisk æstetik. Jess Fullers værker knytter an til en skulpturel forestilling når de stoppede objekter hænger ud i rummet og de optrævlede trådes kurver skabes af deres egen tyngde. Eller en eksistentialistisk forestilling som i værket der hænger og slænger sig dovent og antager menneskelige antræk og man forstår den er tynget på flere planer. Sam Moyers billeder er stramt opklæbet stof på plader, hvor hun skaber motiverne i samspillet mellem folder og stoffets farve og blegningsproces. Som en slags batikmønstre tøjlet i en skarp grafisk gråtoneskala, skriver de sig ind i en abstrakt modernistisk historie, men kan også minde en om landskabsmaleri eller måske et udsnit af mere udefinerbare universer. Om CUBE-udstillingen I Cube viser Aspen Mays uddrag af serierne "Sun Ruins" og "Punched Out Stars". I Chile ved Santiagos Universitets astronomiske observatorium fik hun adgang til et forladt mørkekammer og arkiv. Her skabte hun en serie billeder ud fra fundet materiale bl.a. et gammelt studie i solpletter fra 1957. De sort/hvide billeder fremstår som konkret kunst med solens cirkel i forskellige formationer indtegnet i større grids. I andre værker har hun prikket stjernerne ud og efterladt os til os selv i et abstrakt mønster. Og sidst værket 1% der er en optagelse af tv-skærmens statiske elektricitet – og titlen fordi lige netop 1% af udstrålingen fra en tv-skærm faktisk stammer fra Big Bang. Text in English WASHED UP AND BLEACHED OUT Jess Fuller & Sam Moyer curated by Jens-Peter Brask 2.12. 2011 - 13.1. 2012 Opening: Friday 2.12. 2011, 5-7 pm This time, Galleri Tom Christoffersen exhibits a trio of American artists. Jess Fuller and Sam Moyer inhabit the gallery room with paintings made out of various fabric and textiles, while Aspen Mays' photographs are on display in the Cube. All three of them create their pictures out of existing materials and, each in their own way, focus on themes such as coincidence and order, delineation and fluidity. Process and transformation are leitmotifs in most of the pictures, which however appear beautifully finished in a superb demonstration of what might be called a 'spherical aesthetics'. Jess Fuller's works take turns with the sculptural as stuffed objects float in free space and unravelled threads describe curves formed by their own weight. Existentialist concepts take on tangible form in the human-like piece that lazily weighs itself down on several levels. Sam Moyer's pictures consist of fabric glued tightly on panels, where motifs are created in the interaction between folds, fabric colour and bleaching processes. As a kind of rigorously grey-scaled batik patterns, Moyer's works tie themselves closely with the history of abstract modernism, but also with the very different tradition of landscape paintings, and a physical mimicry of black and white photographic process using domestic materials. Jess Fuller (1972) is educated at Boston University, Boston, MA and University of Iowa, Iowa City. Selected exhibitions: 2011 Text / Image, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY. The Idea of the Thing… Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY. Group Expo, The Armory Show, Canada Gallery, NY. 2010 Material Issue and Other Matters, Canada Gallery, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Sam Moyer (1983) is educated at Corcoran College of Art and Design and Yale School of Art. Selected exhibitions: 2010 Shape Shifters, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, Greater New York, P.S.1, Queens, NY. Transfer Function, ZeiherSmith Gallery, New York, NY. 2009 In the Offing, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin, Germany. Between Spaces, P.S. 1, Queens, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. About the CUBE exhibition In Cube Aspen Mays shows work from the series "Sun Ruins" and "Punched Out Stars". In Chile at Santiago University's astronomical observatory, she got access to an abandoned darkroom and archive. Here she created a series of images from found materials including an old study of sunspots from 1957. The black / white pictures appear as concrete art with the circle of the sun in different formations plotted in larger grids. In other works, she has punched out the stars and left us to ourselves in an abstract pattern. And finally the piece 1% is a recording of the TV screen static, where the title refers to the 1% radiation from a TV screen actually comes from Big Bang. Aspen Mays (1980) is educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Selected exhibitions 2011 Sun Ruins, Golden Gallery, NY. Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, NY, Forms and Inflections, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. 2010 Every leaf on a tree, New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She lives and works Los Angeles, CA. |
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