"THE BALLOON" Exhibition

Southfirst

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“THE BALLOON” is named after a short story by Donald Barthelme. In both the story and the exhibition, a deceptively straightforward, formal approach towards materials (words, metal, canvas, objects, letters) opens up into something unexpectedly connected to narrative, humor, or an investigation of the elliptical logic of language. Things that seem like material facts transform into playful propositions about how we understand the possibilities of a medium.

Jess Fuller’s large-scale dyed and frayed canvas paintings resolve from crafty diptychs and four-piece works to words, the inclusive “us” among them. Hanna Sandin’s mobiles balance ordinary objects into syntactical structures. Her interest in organizing found objects into sets relates to lexical database computer programs, but locates its semantic relations in sculptural qualities. Mark Schubert’s aluminum wall sculptures, cut from canoes and painted in car enamel, present an abstraction which opens onto a psychologically rich, even nostalgic take on materials; his biomorphic floor sculptures from found objects wrapped in resin are convoluted lumps of autobiographical content. Zak Kitnick’s works on paper repeat the appropriated stamped letters VVAM and HWEX. Originally intended as a commercial identity protection product to render text unintelligible, these indelible stamps become first legible as the subject of the works, then illegible and pattern-like through repetition and one-thing-after-another composition.

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Schedule

from February 11, 2011 to March 11, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-02-11 from 18:00 to 20:00

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