NYAB Event - Tom Gallant " two arcs that curve in opposite senses"

Tom Gallant " two arcs that curve in opposite senses"

DCKT Contemporary

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DCKT Contemporary presents Tom Gallant’s first solo exhibition in New York, two arcs that curve in opposite senses. Gallant’s works are meticulously crafted paradoxes of absent presence and are heavily subsumed by the process of removal, subtraction and fragmentation.

The exhibition title refers to the definition of an ogee, a pointed arch having on each side a reversed curve near the apex. An ogee is a form most evident in the geometry of Flamboyant Gothic rose windows and was favored by 19th century decorative arts master William Morris in the underlying structure of patterns. In GALLANT’s works, the ogee appears both literally and ontologically by bringing two motifs together through a process of removal and creating a montage contrasting fragile beauty with the obscene.

Tom Gallant’s cut and layered silhouettes open up the language of collage and use it as a formal device to explore the strength of negative spaces. Among the Mournful is based on a detail from a Gustave Doré illustration for the Bible and is made from three sheets of paper: the first is a colored sheet, the second is cut pornographic magazine paper and the top is black cut paper. Replications of the simple folds of cloth, magnified and isolated, are seen grappling with the forms beneath them yet rest in a state of suspended animation.

Tom Gallant lives and works in London.

[Image: Tom Gallant "Among the Mournful" (2009) cut paper & collage, 26 ½ x 21 ¼ in.]

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• Drawing
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