Month: June 2010
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Michel Auder // Keeping Busy: An Inaccurate Survey
Jack Pierson
Bortolami is proud to present Go there now and take this with you, a show of Jack Pierson’s folded photographs.
While Pierson is best known for his wall sculptures, he has been working as a photographer since he was in art school in the 1980’s. He later expanded his practice to both sculpture and word pieces. The themes of his art are investigated through all mediums, but perhaps they are most directly addressed in his photography due to the concrete representation afforded by the imagery. Pierson’s choices of subject matter seem sprawling, but they are linked by beauty and a thread of passing drama, sexual tension, and ephemeral glamour.
Pierson has always struggled with the needs of photography as a medium. Framing, mounting and glass, separate the observer from the work itself, making the photograph a cumbersome object. The photos presented in this show challenge the need for protection and hang directly on the wall, exposed to the viewer much like the word pieces. Each work is printed on photo paper and folded suggesting that the works are portable. One can take the picture with them in an envelope, or send it to a friend, for hanging and re-hanging in new settings. The picture is intended to age and evolve rather than remain a static print behind glass and a frame.
Jack Pierson was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1960 and attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He lives and works in New York and Southern California. Pierson has had solo exhibitions at El Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain; The Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
Copenhagen Graffiti (Blue trains) //
Gardar Eide Einarsson //
Brion Nuda Rosch
DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present BRION NUDA ROSCH’s first solo exhibition in New York. Deconstructing or rearranging the commonplace, ROSCH’s collages and sculptural works heighten awareness and jar the viewer out of an object or photograph’s sense of embedded context.
Mundane materials such as found book pages, wood, drywall and recycled house paint are slightly or humbly altered. Small adjustments, such as additions or subtractions to found book pages, create seemingly impossible situations. The collaged images create and negate form and content as well as the monumental and un-monumental. A painted stick or block rests on a pedestal, a symbol of importance and a sign that the object is a complete and finished work of art. Contradictions arise and the placement and arrangement of the objects are almost more important than the objects themselves. They are monuments for the everyday and homage to process.
An Object’s Significance Removed is a collection of objects found at 99 Cent stores or rescued from thrift stores. These objects once had significance yet are now devalued or discarded and their possible cultural significance is in question. Collected, gathered, covered in plaster and painted they now exist with an undefined meaning.
For the past decade, ROSCH has used turquoise in his work as a symbol of escape. His unique practice and humble vision influenced Pantone’s decision to name turquoise their Color of the Year for 2010. As Pantone writes, “Turquoise Transports Us to an Exciting, Tropical Paradise While Offering a Sense of Protection and Healing in Stressful Times.”
ROSCH lives and works in San Francisco. He is the recipient of a 2009 Artadia Award. He will be included in the upcoming group exhibition Ultrasonic V at Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA). Previous solo exhibitions include Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (San Francisco) and Allston Skirt Gallery (Boston). Recent group exhibitions include Pool Gallery (Berlin), Dolphin Gallery (Kansas City) and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
