Vincent Como and Joseph Gerard Sabatino Exhibition
PS122 Gallery
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Vincent Como’s work inspires connections to the occult. Derived from an interest in alchemy, mythology, and heavy metal culture, he incorporates a history of color theory and mathematical relations of art and self. Focusing on the notion of black as all and nothing at once, Como sees his work as a “meditation on the all encompassing knowledge and continuous strive for complete information; the beginning and end told throughout history: the Ka'abah or Black Stone of Mecca, Dark Matter and Black Holes, the Nigredo stage of alchemical transformation. ” He works towards “boundlessness” and a “Black Singularity.”
Joseph Gerard Sabatino connects the ordinary and the mundane through sweeping webs of loose gestures and webs in his “Passages” series of word drawings. This ongoing series is strongly influenced by scrawling urban landscapes, where ordered chaos weaves together connections of harmonious histories. The visual congestion of each piece has a suggested hierarchy defined by white welder’s pencil, silver welder’s pencil, and graphite as well as tally marks, which seem to count off a list, giving order. The word drawings, unrestricted and spontaneous, produce various forms of energy by reshuffling the flow of ordinary ideas.
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Schedule
from March 28, 2009 to April 19, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-28 from 17:00 to 19:00