Andrew Guenther "Looking For Culture Part III: Back to My Old Ways"
Freight and Volume
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New York-based Andrew Guenther presents old and new paintings together as a means of mining his individual artistic culture. Positing the installation of the exhibition in synecdochic relation to his painting practice, Guenther displays his works as objects absorbed and re-presented, much in the way his individual works arise from a consumption and regurgitation of culture at large. Guenther’s work presents a world of gathered and reshaped articles. He paints using an array of media and casts a wide web of referents, drawing from the banal (album covers, psychedelia, horror flicks, plants, flowers, birds) and art historical touchstones (Milton Avery, Goya, Dokoupil, and Baselitz come to mind). Ultimately Guenther’s interests in art history, the psychedelic, the spiritual, and the macabre are sandwiched into each piece. In presenting these objects, Guenther gives us a conglomeration of experiences. Paintings are clustered together or grouped on shelves, exhibiting the artist’s cyclical consumption/regurgitation of the outside world into each painting, and of each painting back into his oeuvre. The artist completes the representation of this cycle by including other handmade trinkets and objects of significance.
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Schedule
from November 22, 2008 to January 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-11-22 from 18:00 to 20:00