Ken Solomon "24/7/360"
Josee Bienvenu Gallery
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Josée Bienvenu Gallery presents 24/7/360, Ken Solomon’s third one-person show. The exhibition includes new paintings and drawings as well as a single-channel video. Ken Solomon’s work promotes pauses. His new paintings are slow searches, painstakingly reconstructed snap shots in an attempt to arrest the constant flow of information on the web. He freezes screens to capture an enemy that drifts away, conspires and multiplies at the speed of light. Link after link, brush stroke after brush stroke, and with a good dose of humor the artist sends warning signals of a potential Google Tsunami.
Google Links is a 24 foot long, 8 panel watercolor of overlapping search windows. It starts with the word begin and ends with links with numerous surprises along the way. Each image reads as a vignette, a visual subplot resulting from a particular word or phrase. The Beatles White Album, Picasso's Woman in White, a cluster of white pills tell a story for the word white. Each search finds a commonality with the subsequent one. "White" overlaps with the image search for "1979" (Alex Katz's White Hat 1979), which commences a new journey. The vignettes cross paths, in the spirit of Robert Altman's seminal movie The Player.
24/7/360 is a video in 24 variations. For the past 8 years Ken Solomon has photographed virtually every circular object/form that he has encountered in his daily life. Over 5,000 photographs of seemingly totally random and separate images are linked by a circle that appears to the right, slightly off center. The circles are scaled to match perfectly, the moon is shrunk, a quarter is expanded.
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Schedule
from April 08, 2010 to May 15, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-08 from 18:00 to 20:00