EPISODES, installation view. Carrie Secrist Gallery, 2019, Chicago. (Photo by Nathan Keay)
The Direction of Light and Sapphire Machine Desire, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
EPISODES, at Carrie Secrist, presented seven large-format, vertically oriented paintings propped up on artist-designed sculptural pedestals and leaning on a gallery wall painted with triangular swaths of pinks, blues, oranges and greens. Creating a metaphorical series of stations, or episodes, this installation reveals a series of juxtapositions, contradictions and crosscurrents contextualized within the formal atmosphere of a gallery. Through this non-traditional presentation, the resulting immersive environment suggests architecture’s ability to both confront and disappear from expectations and experience.
-Press Release by Carrie Secrist Gallery
Converging Fields of Emerald Green Stillness, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
EPISODES, installation view. Carrie Secrist Gallery, 2019, Chicago. (Photo by Nathan Keay)
Order of Lemon Gold Stillness, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
These abstract paintings hint at a variety of concepts related to architecture, art historical narratives, Bauhausian ideologies and social constructs.
The paintings coupled with their respective poetic titles allude to an amalgamation of concepts from beehives to topographical utopian maps.
The Pink Side of Silence, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
The Direction of Light and Sapphire Machine Desire, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
Forest Diagram with Field of Plaid Triangles, Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 inches, 2019
EPISODES, installation view. Carrie Secrist Gallery, 2019, Chicago. (Photo by Nathan Keay)
EPISODES, installation view. Carrie Secrist Gallery, 2019, Chicago. (Photo by Nathan Keay)