 David Shrigley: Imagine the Green is Red, 1997 Cibachrome print, 19 x 19 inches framed op...ish an attempt at hyper-extension of the pure visual experience as purveyor of balance Josef Albers, Carla Arocha, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Linda Besemer, Christopher Broughton, Calvin Burton, Greg Crist, Chris Duncan, Noah Fisk, Michelle Grabner, Arturo Herrera, Jim Isermann, Xylor Jane, Gabe Johnson, Casey Keeler, Pepe Mar, Will Mentor, mumbleboy, Robert Munn & Sara Cooke, Paper Rad, Ken Price, Luis Re, Bridget Riley, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, David Shrigley, Mary Ann Strandell, Leo Villareal, Sarah Walker, James Welling "op...ish" partly deals with the constructivists and futurists, their mechanical and sociological language. Op art was described in the language of pure optics, an engineer's relationship to the biological function of sight. Rock & roll posters - the language of drugs and psychedelia, Tim Leary and LSD was roughly around the same time. The mid 1980s op-language deconstruction of quotation engendered Neo-Geo. Considering computer-pop culture as part quotation, part invention... hi & lo. Hi-fi. Wi-fi. Yer Moms. There is more fun & sun in the summer. Colorful rays, reflection and glare abound. It's an attempt at hyper-extension of the pure visual experience as purveyor of balance... senses... sin(a)esthetics. Some of the artists use representation in their work although stratified and mystified though optical variance. The artist as one stop provider... the sole creator of beauty?! More like visual war often. The casual nature of the presentation/installation reveals an insistence/contention/resolve that abstract work need not be detached from real life, and that art is meant to be lived with. Mimicking the sort of breakdown that mass culture and its attendant social arrangements can put any meaningful sign system through. Material accretion, referential overload, unregulated networks of associations and perhaps something like a loss of meaning are the result. Exhibition: 5 June - 5 August, 2005 Gallery hours: Tues-Sun 12 - 6 pm and by appointment Samson Projects 450 Harrison Avenue Storefront 63 USA-Boston, MA 02118 Telephone +1 617 357 7177 Fax +1 617 357 5559 Email samson@samsonprojects.com www.samsonprojects.com |
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