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Subspecies

Eric Angles, Shinsuke Aso, Ryan Brown,
Matthew Deleget,　Miyeon Lee, Jim Nolan,
Karen Schifano

７月１３日（金）　〜　８月１８日（土）
オープニングレセプション: ７月１３日（金）、6 - 8pm

営業時間: 火曜日〜土曜日, 11am - 6pm

*写真はMatthew Delegetの"Pink Nightmare"


以下、プレスリリースです。
"Members of one subspecies differ morphologically from members of other subspecies of the species. Subspecies are defined in relation to species. The distinction can be made in any of a wide number of ways, such as: differently shaped leaves, a different number of primary wing feathers, a particular ritual breeding behavior, relative size of certain bones, different DNA sequences, and so on." (criteria of subspecies)



If the major classifications in art, for example ― painting, drawing, sculpture, performance and installation― were compared to the species, these works by Eric Angles, Shinsuke Aso, Ryan Brown, Matthew Deleget, Miyeon Lee, Jim Nolan and Karen Schifano would be the subspecies. These artists both conceptually and materially distill segments from the surrounding environment: styles and theories of former art movements, social rules, wars around the world, the effects of the global economy, ideologies of different eras, art materials, everyday objects and personal memories. In the process of creation the original meanings of these segments are often transformed, producing unique, idiosyncratic works of art.



Eric Angles' Open Edition 6 is an unlimited production of sets of a monochromatic ready-to-paint-canvas and a screw that confuse the border between art-making and merchandise production. A four-foot high pile of postcards made of found papers and sold for 25 cents each represents Shinsuke Aso's optimistic suggestion about survival and his views on unrealistic utopian thought, by commenting on small economies that depend on trust and honesty among people. Ryan Brown's one-drip-a-day-for-one-year-painting contained in a specially-made attaché case with a paint bottle and a device to hold the bottle can be recognized as a painting, a sculpture and a documentation of a year long performance. Matthew Deleget intentionally appropriates the techniques of reductive abstraction to reveal and criticize stereotypical masculinity in Pink Nightmare, a bubblegum pink monochrome painting that has been destroyed with a hammer. The subject of Miyeon Lee's painting is a painting hung on a wall in its symmetrical shadow. Her work exists between geometric abstraction and representation as well as between the second and third dimensions. Jim Nolan incorporates the detritus of Americana into sculptural narrative. Although his combination of mass-produced objects externally imitates the slickness of minimal art, it also often connotes playful and filthy jokes. Karen Schifano weaves lines and symbols ordinarily found on streets, sports courts and museum floors into canvases that extend lines from the wall to the floor and restrict human beings' movement into geometric boundaries.



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